"tense plot" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe a story that has a lot of suspense and drama, creating a sense of unease in the reader. For example, "The tense plot of the novel had me on the edge of my seat until the end."
"Tense plot, bizarre story, exquisite production, excellent performances," it said of the third season's first episode.
This is a slick drama with fabulous actors, a tense plot and a classy, literate script.
The description allows for a few seconds of calm in an increasingly tense plot, but it's also a bravura set piece.
If witnesses abided by the oath to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," there wouldn't be the contradictions between testimonies that give a trial its tense plot and the jury its task of deciding whom to believe.
Instead, we have a taut, tense, plot-heavy cop drama.
Klíma's one-act plays, such as Klára a dva páni (1968; "Klara"), Cukrárna Myriam (1971; "Sweetshop Myriam"), and Hry (1975; "Games"), are distinguished by tense plots and absurd situations.
This exploration of the faultlines of reality set in Joyce's native Leicestershire is layered with the psychological ambiguity, wit, snappy dialogue and tense plotting that is becoming his trademark.
The film takes Reichardt's socially aware filmmaking style and grafts it onto a tense plotting reminiscent of the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s.
But this looks like his best yet: an impressively realistic-looking jeopardy nightmare that dovetails with a tense thriller plot.
You said: Tense, closely plotted detective story with a moral outlook.
Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane, which was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize This Chinese novel from 1827 is a fantasy classic of the Qing Dynasty period, full of sophisticated philosophy, tense quest plot-lines and one of the most wonderful explorations of feminism I have ever read.
