Quotes About Suspense

17. Un hombre buscado (A Wanted Man)

19. Personal (VIII Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca, 2014)

Though little had actually happened to Susannah the car smelled of lovemaking.

Prologue Summer, 1962 MARSH MCKITTRICK'S BUICK WAS passed through the gates of the vast Government complex outside Langley. He eased onto the turnpike, then sped toward Washington, touching his briefcase nervously and looking into the rearview mirror. Two cars filled with heavily armed guards followed closely. Sanderson Hooper beside him and Michael Nordstrom in the rear seat remained speechless.

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder. A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, Evie said excitedly. It won't be a minute.

It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers.

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

Maybe he would kill one of them for fun. Maybe not. Mood was everything.

The sound of the engine changed from a hardworking drone to a hum. My stomach lurched to my chest. Now we would fall out of the sky. We hit a bump, and the plane lifted, as if soaring over a bubble. I waited for the corresponding drop. It didn't come.

Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. "So it would seem," D.D.

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

Do you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a novelist?

Positive means feeling enjoyment, suspense, amusement, and the satisfaction of what psychologists call belief affirmation—stories turning out as readers believe they should. That requires more than just a happy ending. It means affirming readers' beliefs and validating their morals.

Dorothy Eden (1912–1982) was the internationally acclaimed author of more than forty bestselling Gothic, romantic suspense, and historical novels. Born in New Zealand, where she attended school and worked as a legal secretary, she moved to London in 1954 and continued to write prolifically. Eden's novels are known for their suspenseful, spellbinding plots, finely drawn characters, authentic historical detail, and often a hint of spookiness.

Skinless creatures swayed in death throes from thick, silver hooks. Beneath them, on the turquoise mosaic floor, rows of buckets overflowed with clotting blood.

Douglas E. Richards

Douglas E. Richards

We both absently pulled handguns from our holsters and extended them outward.

holding cell Brad and Tessa were in,

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

Watch your step," said Slash. Jig stopped, fully expecting to be shot, poisoned, crushed, or maybe all three at the same time. "What is it now?" Slash pointed to a pile of brown, slimy goo in the center of the tunnel. "Hairball.

The way everything seems to be working out right now, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up dead before the night is over.

She yanked open his shirt, put the injector against his heart and pulled the trigger. She held her breath waiting to see if it would work, ticking off the seconds. Ten. Twenty. Thirty. The twitching stopped. Forty. Fifty. Sixty. Owen opened his eyes. Bay smiled at him. "Those are the loveliest red-rimmed eyes I've ever seen." Owen managed a wobbly grin. "Ditto.