At the high end, the genre was called "romantic suspense," and at the low end — drugstore paperbacks on whose covers distressed women in nightgowns cowered before big, spooky houses — the novels were "gothics".
"Missed calls create suspense," Mr. Tripathy explained, who interviewed 260 musicians for his research project in 2009 and 2010.
While Mr. LaBute, surprisingly enough, shows himself adept at romance, he falters when the story calls for suspense.
One reads Auster's novels very fast, because they are lucidly written, because the grammar of the prose is the grammar of the most familiar realism (the kind that is, in fact, comfortingly artificial), and because the plots, full of sneaky turns and surprises and violent irruptions, have what the Times once called "all the suspense and pace of a bestselling thriller".
Instead, the partial payments are deposited into a so-called suspense account.
If a Kansan registers to vote but does not provide one of 13 valid proof-of-citizenship documents, such as a birth certificate or passport, he or she is placed on a so-called "suspense" list.
McEwan is often called the master of suspense.
Rowan also appeared on a panel at the Mysterious Bookshop called "New Faces of Suspense".
This is called "the paradox of suspense" and it is explained by A. R. Duckworth: "1.
Last weekend, a tough, somewhat violent suspense film called "Don't Say a Word" was No. 1 at the box office.
