Shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel
Charlie Tate and Elodie Gray make a striking couple. Charlie, a shaven-headed weightlifter who has worked as a seaman, carnival huckster and hustler, now earns his keep as an unlicensed private investigator specializing in extricating clients' money from thieves. Elodie is his poised, blue-blood, super-sleuth wheelchair-bound wife. Together, they are an unstoppable, no-nonsense crime-fighting team who thrive on bringing down wealthy drips trying to get away with murder - literally.
In The Finger's Twist, Charles and Elodie are hired to investigate a bombing attempt at the Ontario legislature, purportedly committed by an anarchist group called The Black Bloc. While the city drops into paranoia fueled by the police and the mayor, Charlie and Elodie try to keep the black sheep daughter of a prominent family from a certain prison sentence.
The Finger's Twist is more than just a gripping action thriller with an extreme tough-guy hero. It's a story of unlikely lovers defying emotional and physical odds, and a clash of differing social castes, prejudices, and political worlds.
