The phrase "an element of suspense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing literature, film, or any narrative that creates tension or anticipation for the audience.
Example: "The author skillfully incorporated an element of suspense that kept readers on the edge of their seats throughout the novel."
Alternatives: "a sense of suspense" or "a touch of suspense".
And with an element of suspense.
There's an element of suspense built into the act of turning pages; you miss that here.
Operas of this ilk nearly always involve an element of suspense — will the devil or his intended victim prevail?
Jennifer Weiner, another creator of widely popular female characters, injects an element of suspense into her latest, "Best Friends Forever".
"There's an element of suspense, not that the whole world is waiting, but a few people are waiting and hopefully, over time, more people will be waiting".
Now the doctor had added an element of suspense to the physical discomfort: Would the injection make the cyst go away?
The randomised chronology removes any element of suspense, while the relentless grand guignol symbolism would embarrass the genre's journeymen.
The inexorability of O'Connor's plots can, as in these cases, invest her stories with the awful power of Greek tragedy, and indeed before giving readings of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" she'd say that, "like the Greeks you should know what is going to happen in this story so that any element of suspense in it will be transferred from its surface to its interior".
Rendell develops her many characters with such cunning that an element of comic suspense is created around the question of which of them will crack up first.
This time, returning to safer and more familiar territory, he dissects an amoral corporate culture, decries blind ambition and manages to use alcoholism, often the laziest aspect of crime stories, as an element of dramatic suspense.
All thrillers depend on tension, but the final part of a successful TV crime drama brings an extra element of suspense: whether the conclusion will satisfy the large audience that has tuned in every week.
