From bustling cities to remote landscapes, Asia offers a rich and complex backdrop for crime fiction and thrillers. In this panel, authors discuss how Asian settings, history, and cultural dynamics shape plot, character, and suspense. They explore the challenges and rewards of writing authentically about place, and how these locations add layers of tension, mystery, and atmosphere that readers can’t get anywhere else.
How to Sustain Suspense in a Psychological Thriller
Psychological thrillers live or die by their tension. Alicia Anthony, Diane Sismour, Georgina Cross, J.T. Ellison, and Rick Treon break down how to sustain suspense from the first page to the last by controlling twists, setting, pacing, and reader expectations. This...
