![]() ![]() My new thriller Did You See Melody? is set in a five-star spa resort, where a tourist stumbles into a hotel room that is already occupied by a man and a girl. For example, if you find out at the end of the novel that the murderer is not the person whose fingerprints were on the knife, but rather his long-dead second cousin who developed marvellous fingerprint-forging technology unknown to science or the reader – that’s not a twist, it’s a travesty. ![]() And the new picture created by the shake-up of the twist has to be one that makes sense and is not risible. Writing a twist isn’t an exact science, but part of what makes the brilliant ones so attractive in fiction is that feeling of having everything you thought you knew reversed, inverted or demolished the fictional equivalent of being on a rollercoaster that suddenly turns upside down, leaving everything looking and feeling very different for the rest of the ride. ![]()
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