The fourth book in the ongoing Bromo Perkins crime series, Twisted Trees sees disgraced British secret service agent Bromo Perkins again being stirred from his exile as a "sleeper" in Australia. This time it is to delve into the brutal stabbing of the twenty-something son of Dave McCoy, a "person of interest" to Bromo's bosses back in London.
Within days of his son's death, McCoy's only daughter has been assaulted in her own home and pictures of her stripped, shaved and tied up sent to her father. Second son Brendan narrowly escapes an arsonist's attack on his bush block home and his sibling, Trevor, is upturned from his kayak and left to drown in the Yarra River.
Each attack is accompanied by a cryptic warning about family trees and a threat that worse will follow. Bromo calls upon the genealogy experience of occasional associate and hoped-for lover Liz Shapcott who promises to research the McCoy family tree.
The pair are soon drawn into a murderous web of duplicity and murder that leads back to London in the Blitz.
