Sentence examples for suspense her from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, despite Shah's knack for pacing and suspense, her novel is uneven.

No need for suspense: her vision of a dark and malign West Country in thrall to corruption and twisted psychopathology is quite as unsettling as its predecessors.

Her mad scene achieved a thrilling quality of suspense; her second act was exquisitely fragile, her arabesques showing the pitched forward torso that characterize period lithographs of the ballet.

Jennifer Weiner, another creator of widely popular female characters, injects an element of suspense into her latest, "Best Friends Forever".

Suspense is her friend, and she plays with pace like an old pro who's used to telling long jokes without ruining the punch lines.

Don't Look Back, by Laura Lippman (Avon, £6.99) Lippman has long excelled at believable psychological suspense, and her latest novel is no exception.

After she has superbly built up the suspense of her narrative, Desai's snapped-apart transition to a desultory valediction is disappointingly fragmentary, a devaluation of our finely developed investment in this man's life.

After marrying Donald Arquette in 1965, Ms. Duncan returned to young-adult writing, pivoting from romance to suspense, writing her first noted thriller, "Ransom" (1966), about five teenagers from a well-to-do neighborhood who are taken hostage by their school bus driver.

Anna's condition worsens and Lib begins to wonder: "Could the Watch be having the perverse effect of turning the O'Donnells' lie to truth?" Donoghue draws out the narrative suspense with her customary combination of historical verve and emotional delicacy, as the mystery becomes not so much what is happening beneath Lib's nose, but why.

Kemp ended the suspense, putting her team up 9-3 headed into the final round.

She made a casual comment over dinner one night about the fact that she could not find good suspense for her students.