Şizofrenik

Published in German as Trigger, this was Wulf Dorn's debut and the book that made him a fixture on Turkish bestseller lists — often more popular in translation than at home. A psychologist takes in a terrified, unidentified woman, and the encounter drags her back into something from her own childhood that she had filed away as settled.

Dorn worked for years in psychiatric care before writing fiction, and the setting is where the book is strongest — the institutional detail is convincing in a way that most thrillers using psychiatry as set dressing are not.

It is a genre novel and behaves like one: short chapters, a twist structure, built for speed rather than for reflection.