Welcome to The Irresponsible Reader’s part in the Cover Reveal for Anne Coates’s Dancers in the Wind! Red Dog Press always provides an eye-catching cover for these things, and this one is no exception. But before we get to the cover down below, but before the picture, I’ve got a few words to share about the book.

Book Blurb

SHE IS HUNTING FOR THE TRUTH, BUT WHO IS HUNTING HER?

Freelance journalist and single mother Hannah Weybridge is commissioned by a national newspaper to write an investigative article on the notorious red light district in Kings Cross. There she meets prostitute Princess, and police inspector in the vice squad, Tom Jordan.

When Princess later arrives on her doorstep beaten up so badly she is barely recognisable, Hannah has to make some tough decisions and is drawn ever deeper into the world of deceit and violence. Three sex workers are murdered, their deaths covered up in a media blackout, and Hannah herself is under threat.

As she comes to realise that the taste for vice reaches into the higher echelons of the great and the good, Hannah realises she must do everything in her power to expose the truth …. and stay alive.

Publication date: August 10, 2021

About the Author

Anne CoatesFor most of her working life in publishing, Anne has had a foot in both camps as a writer and an editor, moving from book publishing to magazines and then freelancing in both.

Having edited both fiction and narrative non-fiction, she has also had short stories published in a variety of magazines including Bella and Candis and is the author of seven non-fiction books.

Telling stories is Anne’s first love and nearly all her short fiction as well as Dancers in The Wind and Death’s Silent Judgement began with a real event followed by a ‘what if …’.

That is also the case with the two prize-winning 99Fiction.net stories: Codewords and Eternal Love.

Find her on twitter: @Anne_Coates1


And now…

The Cover

Dancers in the Wind

Again, this book comes out on August 10th, but you can pre-order this now at: Red Dog Press.



My thanks to Red Dog Press for the invitation to participate in this reveal and the materials they provided.

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