When I was putting this list together, one thing became abundantly clear—thrillers (especially psychological thrillers) written in the east are starkly different from thrillers in the west. The west tends to embrace what I like to think of as “page-turners.” The stakes are high, the protagonist is usually on a clock of sorts, and, with … Continue reading In Praise of the Slow-Burn Suspense of South and East Asian Thrillers