There was a bite to the winds, a ghostly quality to the restrained strings; and this conductor's trademark pauses created a suspense that was completely appropriate to this music.
It's a beautiful job of plotting, and it depends on the skill with which the book's last quarter cuts between Mr. Jalal and the sweet melancholy of his upstairs neighbor, the widower Taneja, creating a suspense that deepens the book's emotional register.
Lottie Moggach has created "a suspense novel that is classy, frightening and upsetting", in Kiss Me First, the story of a woman persuades another to impersonate her online so that she can leave her life behind without distressing her friends and family.
Create a little suspense in your teaser and we're more likely to pay attention.
To create a good suspense story, you need reader empathy and reader concern.
The trick with that book was to tell the reader exactly what was going to happen in the first paragraph and then, despite that foreknowledge, to create a sense of suspense.
That plan goes awry and the threats of retribution, which should create a sense of suspense, are predictable and repetitive.
Truth and small lies, ethics and expediency, life and death -- they all have an effect and create a sense of suspense and a tension that is enthralling by the end of this film.
King also uses other elements like a Jeopardy game and a conversation between the main character and his wife to create a feeling of suspense and dread.
King also uses other elements like a Jeopardy game and a conversation between the main character and his wife to further create a feeling of suspense and dread.
