Quotes About Suspense

The door swung open under

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the crime as we knew it. I told them I'd send

binoculars, adjusts the oxygen hose around his head again. It was just too damn strange, too damn out of the ordinary. No moving vans, no friends stopping by; neither the husband nor the wife—if they

House, we'd been told. If I needed any further indication of what

A little light show before they cut his cake once and for all, the bastards.

smudged with black powder. Every mirror, every painting, had been taken down from the walls. Even the benign and wise Charlie Clapper was disgusted: "The Baileys had a lot of friends and a lot of parties. We've got enough prints and trace to short out the crime lab. For a year." Conklin said, "How about it, Sarge?" "Okay. We're done." We turned out the lights as

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roadway. We didn't stop at the house, but instead rounded the corner and stopped a block away. Stepping out and

of," I said. "There's more, Alex." Normally Joan was pretty matter-of-fact, even at the roughest scenes, but there was a tightness in her voice

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Gautier was possibly dead, probably dead. I ran as I shouted, "Take

Doors slammed. Tires smoked. A pistol came out the

heads—and since cops

building had turned out to be murders. She

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diminutive Mr. B was a private eye. The

Murder Club Story (with Maxine Paetro) • Black Dress Affair

You may be the only person who's rooting for the serial killer.

I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown.

Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.