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 | A Song from Dead Lips(2013)(She's Leaving Home) (The first book in the DS Breen and WPC Tozer series) A novel by William Shaw |
Barry Awards Best First Novel (nominee)
London, October 1968. As Beatles fans encamp outside Abbey Road Studios up the road, the Marylebone CID is as much an old boys' club as it ever was: comfortably sexist, racially prejudiced and crawling with corruption.
Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is the pariah of the office, having just run out on a fellow officer held at knifepoint, when it's shaken up by the arrival of WPC Helen Tozer: awkward chatterbox, farmgirl, and the first woman to enter the murder unit - apart from the secretary.
When a young woman is found naked and strangled in well-to-do St John's Wood, her identity is a mystery. The neighbours offer nothing but xenophobic suspicions, witnesses are staying silent; only Tozer's savvy gives Breen a lead.
Following it, resourceless, deep into the rural backwaters, Breen sees one dead body lead to another - a trail of bloodshed taking them dangerously close to a killer with everything to lose...
Genre: Mystery
Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is the pariah of the office, having just run out on a fellow officer held at knifepoint, when it's shaken up by the arrival of WPC Helen Tozer: awkward chatterbox, farmgirl, and the first woman to enter the murder unit - apart from the secretary.
When a young woman is found naked and strangled in well-to-do St John's Wood, her identity is a mystery. The neighbours offer nothing but xenophobic suspicions, witnesses are staying silent; only Tozer's savvy gives Breen a lead.
Following it, resourceless, deep into the rural backwaters, Breen sees one dead body lead to another - a trail of bloodshed taking them dangerously close to a killer with everything to lose...
Genre: Mystery
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Used availability for William Shaw's A Song from Dead Lips
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Hardback Editions
February 2014 : USA Hardback
 | Title: She's Leaving Home (Breen and Tozer) Author(s): William Shaw ISBN: 0-316-24684-0 / 978-0-316-24684-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Mulholland Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
August 2013 : UK Hardback
 | Title: A Song from Dead Lips: Breen & Tozer 1 (Breen and Tozer) Author(s): William Shaw ISBN: 1-78206-416-8 / 978-1-78206-416-9 (UK edition) Publisher: riverrun Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA |
Paperback Editions
January 2015 : USA Paperback
 | Title: She's Leaving Home (Breen and Tozer) Author(s): William Shaw ISBN: 0-316-24685-9 / 978-0-316-24685-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Mulholland Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
May 2014 : UK Paperback
 | Title: A Song from Dead Lips: Breen & Tozer 1 (Breen and Tozer) Author(s): William Shaw ISBN: 1-78206-419-2 / 978-1-78206-419-0 (UK edition) Publisher: riverrun Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
August 2013 : UK Paperback
 | Title: A Song from Dead Lips: Breen & Tozer 1 (Breen and Tozer) Author(s): William Shaw ISBN: 1-78206-417-6 / 978-1-78206-417-6 (UK edition) Publisher: riverrun Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
2013 : UK Paperback
 | Title: A Song From Dead Lips (Large Print Edition) Author(s): William Shaw ISBN: 1-4712-4658-2 / 978-1-4712-4658-6 (UK edition) Publisher: W F Howes Ltd Availability: Amazon UK |
Audio Editions
March 2015 : UK Audio CD
 | Title: A Song from Dead Lips Author(s): William Shaw ISBN: 1-4712-9381-5 / 978-1-4712-9381-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Whole Story Audio Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA |
February 2014 : USA Audio edition
 | Title: She's Leaving Home Author(s): William Shaw Publisher: Hachette Audio Availability: Amazon |
August 2013 : USA Audio edition
 | Title: A Song from Dead Lips Author(s): William Shaw Publisher: Audible Studios Availability: Amazon |
August 2013 : UK Audio edition
 | Title: A Song from Dead Lips Author(s): William Shaw Publisher: Audible Studios Availability: Amazon UK |
Kindle Editions
February 2014 : USA, Canada Kindle edition
 | Title: She's Leaving Home (Breen and Tozer Book 1) Author(s): William Shaw Publisher: Mulholland Books Availability: Amazon Amazon CA |
July 2013 : UK Kindle edition
 | Title: A Song from Dead Lips: Breen & Tozer 1 (Breen and Tozer) Author(s): William Shaw Publisher: riverrun Availability: Amazon UK |
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