Then DI Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth: it isn't Alison who is the mistake, it's the three women already dead. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake. She can see, hear and feel but she is completely unable to move or communicate. 'A terrifically stylish debut novel' Independent on Sunday Alison Willetts has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck.
The classic first novel from Mark Billingham introduces DI Tom Thorne in a unforgettable and terrifying case that changed crime fiction forever. But it was the others who were his mistakes: he doesn't want to take life, he just wants to put people into a state where they cannot move, cannot talk, cannot do anything but think.When Thorne, helped by the neurologist looking after Alison, starts to realise what he is up against he knows the case is not going to be solved by normal methods - before he can find out who did it he has to understand why he's doing it. Tom Thorne believes the murderer has made a mistake, which ought to allow them to get on his tracks. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable damage to the ligaments in her neck, and their cause of death is changed from 'natural' to murder.The police aren't making much progress in their hunt for the killer until he appears to make a mistake: Alison Willetts is found alive and D.I. It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic.
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