Such counterpoint, of course, increases the suspense.
If a bomb is supposed to be going off in the railway station at 08 30am, the good guy has to run and drive at speed to get there, with his desperation increasing the suspense.
This can be a great way to lead up to a kill, or just increase the suspense.
It was a measure of the author's artistic achievement that her pervasive use of irony in respect to characters and events only served to increase the tension and suspense of the fiction.
Without the increasing level of suspense inherent in crime fiction, maintaining high levels of idealism and earnestness (against all odds) can be exhausting.
However, where historic fiction leaves versed readers knowing the historic outcome, original characters may increase suspense and empathy for the readers.
One explanation for this long silence could be that the government has an exit plan of such elegance that it is being kept concealed to build up the suspense and increase our collective awe when it is revealed in all its brilliance.
In "Source Code," the layered actions are not simultaneous but strung end to end (with pauses in between), and, since Colter increasingly knows what he's looking for, the suspense increases geometrically.
Tension and suspense are increased by the use of all-knowing narrators and flashbacks, in that the audience is always cognizant of impending doom.
Yet her writing achieves its own kind of narrative tension, a spell that obliges even the readers already clued in to Tiptree's secret to turn the book's pages with increasing suspense as they wait for its real-life inhabitants to catch up with them.
