<p><i><b>London, 1968</i></b>. </p><p><b>The Runaway</b>. A young woman is found naked and strangled in an alley in well-to-do St John''s Wood. </p><p><b>The African</b>. The neighbours would love to pin it on the enigmatic black stranger who has just moved in. </p><p><b>The Pariah</b>. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is convinced there''s more to the case than anyone wants to admit; no-one''s listening. </p><p><b>The Outsider</b>. In walks WPC Helen Tozer - awkward chatterbox, farmgirl, and the first woman to enter the murder unit - and gives Breen a breakthrough. </p><p><i>A Song from Dead Lips</i> is a crime thriller that shows the glorified sixties close-up, as it really was - comfortably sexist, racially prejudiced, class-bound and crawling with corruption. </p>