A professor is found dead in a Glasgow laboratory he had no business entering, bludgeoned and hidden inside a freezer. No one can explain why he was there after dark, alone.

To the Specialist Crime Squad, the answer looks straightforward. A troubled man with a grievance. Poison-pen letters. An obvious suspect.

But Detective Sergeant Don Maciver, newly arrived from the west coast with a son in a hospital bed and a marriage under strain, cannot make a frightened letter-writer fit the cold, careful thing that was done to Robert Arnold.

The harder Maciver pulls at the case, the more he feels a hand on it that isn’t his, easing the investigation away from the truth and toward a man who didn’t do it.

Because what Arnold was building in that room is worth a fortune to people who never raise their voices, never leave a mark, and never need to do anything monstrous themselves.

Twisting Fates is a slow-burn Glasgow crime novel of secrets, grief and quiet corruption, where the most dangerous thing in any room is a reasonable voice.

Perfect for readers of Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Denise Mina. Book one of the Specialist Crime Squad series.