Bücher von Anne Coates

Book six in the Hannah Weybridge Crime Thriller Series"All that is now hidden will some day come to light. If you have ears, listen! And be sure to put into practice what you hear." Mark 4, verse 22 A chorister is found dying in the Lady Chapel when the Reverend Peter Savage is about to begin morning prayers. It's a suspicious death and no one seems to know much about the victim. The vicar implores Hannah Weybridge to find out what she can. Little did the journalist know that this investigation would involve joining the choir in preparation for the Christmas services or that her daughter, Elizabeth, would be so enchanted by the church. Hannah soon discovers that the deceased, Daniel Lyons, seems to be a man without a history and that's suspicious in itself. Apparently an insurance fraud investigator, he leaves no records and even his landlady knows little about him. But, as Hannah discovers, someone does know him - and he was definitely not who he seemed to be... And while she investigates, someone is trying to intimidate Hannah in a series of seemingly unconnected ways. The past as well as the present haunts her. Will she be able to solve the mystery before Christmas is ruined?

Dulwich library is the scene of a suspicious death, followed swiftly by another in Manchester, the victims linked by nothing other than their Australian nationality. Police dismiss the idea of a serial killer, but journalist Hannah Weybridge isn't convinced.She is drawn into an investigation in which more Australian men are killed as they try to trace their British families. Her research reveals past horrors and present sadness, and loss linked to children who went missing after the Second World War. Have those children returned now?Once again Hannah finds herself embroiled in a deadly mystery, a mystery complicated by the murder of Harry Peters; the brother of Lucy, one of the residents of Cardboard City she had become friendly with. It soon becomes clear Lucy is protecting secrets of her own.What is Lucy's link to the murders and can Hannah discover the truth before the killer strikes again?

At the Old Vic, one of London's most iconic theatres, the stage is set for one of our national treasures to tread the boards in a new, sell-out play. Joan Ballantyne, now in her sixties, has attracted a new fan base with her role in an award-winning soap, Chicory Road, and they've turned out in force. As the curtain rises, it reveals the strangely still body of the leading lady, slumped in an armchair. The show will not go on...Still recovering from the attempt on her life, Hannah Weybridge is stunned. She had been collaborating with the actress on her memoir. Now she has to contribute to her obituary. Suicide is suspected, but Hannah, from the little she knows of the woman, is sceptical. As is Joan's son, the famous TV actor, Leo Hawkins, who implores Hannah to investigate the circumstances of his mother's mysterious death.Hannah is drawn into the lives of those who knew Joan. But who can she trust in a world where everyone seems to be playing a part?

A young Asian woman's body is found in a lake. Is it a sad case of suicide or something more sinister? Hannah Weybridge, still reeling from her friend's horrific murder and the attempts on her own life, doesn't want to get involved, but reluctantly agrees to look into the matter for the family. The investigation has wider implications and dark secrets are gradually exposed.The past however still stalks Hannah's steps, and a hidden danger accompanies her every move.The third in the bestselling Hannah Weybridge thriller series, Songs of Innocents provides Hannah with her toughest, and deadliest, assignment yet...

Following the deadly events of Dancers in the Wind, freelance journalist and single mother Hannah Weybridge is thrown into the heart of a horrific murder investigation when her friend, Liz Rayman, is found with her throat slashed at her pro bono dental practice for the homeless in the crypt of St John the Evangelist, Waterloo.With few clues to the apparently motiveless crime, and at the behest of Liz's mother, Lady Rayman, Hannah throws herself into discovering the reason for her friend's brutal murder, determined to unmask the killer. But before long Hannah's investigations place her in mortal danger, her hunt for the truth placing her in the path of a remorseless killer....

"A complex story in which suspects, love interests, journalistic integrity and frustrations, all play a role. The denouement is cleverly engineered to surprise, and the bloody elements are nicely balanced with Hannah's deep love for her infant daughter and her attraction to a man of mystery." - Bonnie MacBird"A very good and gripping storyline. I love the character of Hannah Weybridge, she keeps you on the edge of your seat. Dancers in the Wind is easy to read and keeps you engrossed. A great novel, looking forward to the sequel." Alison Waterfield"I was not sure what I was going to get when I picked this book up, I was not expecting short snappy chapters that kept me hooked throughout the book nor was I expecting to have read over half the book in one sitting. I feel like this book blew me away in such an unexpected way... The scary thing with this story, it shows you how far corruption can run up the ladder, corrupt cops, politicians, well-respected men in power...corrupt, doesn't that ring true! How far the cover-ups go, how to quiet the press, how to intimidate everyone into keeping quiet." Zoë"A cleverly written, nicely paced and utterly believable story. Set in London in the recent past, there is a familiarity to the setting; that sense of place almost a character in its own right... With Coates' cast, as in life, what is thought does not necessarily resemble what is said or what is done. Her portrayal of human nature is, I think, well observed. She embraces conflicting and often irrational emotions never making the characters' decisions overly straight forward or clear cut. As a reader, one must decide whether or not to believe in coincidence just as the characters, in their part, must decide how to act on them. It is easy to get caught in the action and you may find yourself wondering what you would do in a character's place." Kelly LaceyFreelance 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.