But while there is menace and suspense in Felicia's Journey, and a lot of black humour, there is no explicit violence.
Add in a golden retriever puppy, a chance for Chul Min to earn the $30,000 that will pay for Jung-hwa's corneal transplants, and a highly illegal, mixed martial arts cage fight in Thailand, and there's plenty of action and suspense in what might otherwise be a routine tearjerker.
"So there has to be an element of mystery and suspense in his release, also".
"A bleaker, Nordic version of 'The West Wing,' 'Borgen' finds a remarkable amount of drama and suspense in center-left alliances, pension plans and televised debates".
MC: You do an excellent job of balancing humor, pathos and suspense in the book.
There are pathos and suspense in these tribulations, but the world of "Telegraph Avenue" is safe, symmetrical and fundamentally comic.
"Hitchcock famously distinguished between surprise and suspense in movies," said David Sterritt, author of "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" (Cambridge Film Classics).
When I was nine, which I did consider childhood, I'd lived for months of grief and suspense in "Les Misérables".
We know this storyline will be major in season five, thanks to the foreshadowing and suspense in season four.
There was a sense of self-discovery and suspense, caught in a historical tide that had not yet reached its peak.
