Twisted River was one of the five fiction titles recommended in the Sydney Morning Herald’s and Age’s Ten New Books To Read This Week On Saturday, Oct 11. This is what they said:
An unknown nemesis has set out to destroy a married couple in the latest from Scottish-born crime writer James Dunbar. Cate and Rory Porter are in their 30s. She works at a charity; he’s in web design. They seem too unremarkable to hate but someone despises them enough to plan a deranged scheme to destroy their peace of mind. When the couple returns home from a European vacation, a nightmarish situation awaits. Credit cards cancelled. Bank accounts emptied. Phone and internet disconnected. And it gets worse. Cate discovers someone has forged an inflammatory resignation letter in her own handwriting and delivered it to her workmates. The cops don’t take their plight seriously, so it’s up to them to outwit and track down their persecutor as a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins. Enmity is a strong motivator, and the wicked appeal of Twisted River’s premise should attract crime fans, even if it’s stronger at black comedy than as a suspenseful thriller.
