Equally adroit at satire and at psychological suspense, Heller charts the course of a predatory friendship and demonstrates the lengths to which some people go for human company.
Suddenly, the Britons who were clapping beneath party hats from the Dr. Seuss collection and wearing flags around their bodies like togas, could exit into the dusk, half-delighted at the suspense but bummed at the death of a fairy tale.
At moments, suspense drops.
Brennan excels at maintaining suspense in general.
Like David Cronenberg and Roman Polanski, Mr. McKee is a master at drawing suspense from pregnant silences.
Chabrol was sometimes referred to as "the French Hitchcock," a tribute to his skill at building suspense through the ruthless and elegant control of visual and narrative information.
Laken divulges that piece of information with the delicacy of a poet and the punch of an old hand at the suspense game.
Annabel Pitcher is great at building suspense and you read almost the whole book until you find out who Zoe has actually killed.
