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"SHE IS HUNTING FOR THE TRUTH, BUT WHO IS HUNTING HER?"
Synopsis
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.
My Review
Set in the early 1990’s ( lots of nostalgia for this time for me! living my teenage dreams through the ninetys I was!)
We are introduced to Hannah Weybridge; a journalist who has recently returned to work following the birth of her daughter.
One of her first assignments is an interview with a prostitute known as Princess who plys her trade around the Kings Cross area and is also taking part in a upcoming documentary.
Tom Jordan is investigating the murders of prostitutes in the area and after Princess nearly becomes another victim but manages to escape the killer, Princess ends up on Hannahs doorstep.
Here all 3 of there worlds colide, Tom on the hunt for the killer, Hannah on the hunt for the truth and Princess or Caroline to use her real name and her fight for survival.
But who can they trust when the lies go so far?
The characters are very believable and the grim tales and horrors of Caroline's life are so gritty the emotions are so heartfelt. I could see and understand why Hannah wanted to help Caroline so much and Tom was very genuine and seemed to really want to help the Prostitues in the area, he respected them which was a theme as the victims are treated and disposed of like rubbish and there vulnerability and you really sensed he wanted to find the killer to protect them not just to close the case.
Dancers in the Wind is a new twist on a crime story told mainly from the point of view of Hannah and he take as a journalist rather than a police procedural type tale.
I really enjoyed this book it drew me in and like all the best reads I found myself thinking just one more chapter!
I would very much like to read more from this author and especially this collection of characters.
Author Bio
For 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.
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Thank you to the Publisher and Author for sending me an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel and for the opportunity to review these works.
All reviews are my own unbiased opinion.
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