writing
"There's no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you"
-Maya Angelou
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I'm by no means an authority on the subject, but what I think works well is dropping hints that don't seem like hints in different scenes/conversations. Stuff that seems like it's just part of the current scene but when put together with the other hints reveal the plot twist. The art here is to make these hints seem mundane in every way, but a discerning reader will figure it out quickly.
My personal favorite is to have a down and out cynic character just be constantly spouting conspiracy theories, eventually, some conspiracy theory is going to be right.
A campaign I ran had a drunken indebted and disgraced count who during a call to arms meeting cause a scene with a "we're all gonna die" speech, that the empire was going to come into the operation and kill both the invasion and their forces to further secure the duchies they were defending.