The play picks up when Highsmith, the author of the Tom Ripley suspense novels, is near the end of her life, holed up in expatriate isolation in the Swiss Alps.
Roberts's romantic suspense novel, which sits near the top of The New York Times paperback best-seller list, captures the rugged grandeur of Lunacy, Alaska, a tiny outpost where her hero -- a former Baltimore detective who fled the lower 48 after the death of his partner -- takes a job as the town's first police chief.
In 2001, the writer-director Richard Kelly, who was only twenty-six athehe time, created "Donnie Darko," a near-masterpiece of psychological suspense and apocalyptic mystification, which has since become one of the most popular cult films of the past decade.
Carlos's risky journey from a near spiritual death back to life provides plenty of suspense, tersely knowledgeable warriors' dialogue and bad guys so bad you don't care about the terrible things that happen to them.
A terrible suspense builds up in this book, as Lev's sentence nears its end.
Bob Strauss wrote in the newspaper that the film achieved a "near-perfect entertainment balance" of comedy, romance, and suspense.
Set in the near future, it takes the form of a slick international suspense thriller, the kind that cuts from a rainswept warehouse in a bleak corner of the former Soviet empire to a dimly lit White House Situation Room.
Mr. Stashower invests this high-wire act — a near disaster, as it turned out — with the same air of suspense as the murder investigation itself.
As Sunday's date for this year's Academy Awards approaches, and with it the growing suspense over who will win what, Nick Clooney follows from his Augusta, Ky., home (near Cincinnati) with special interest.
With the cool audacity of someone making a suspense thriller, Layton held back the awful twist until near the very end.
