Jaws, the book, was a middling thriller with some fine suspense sequences, and not highly rated when it was published in 1974.
It is a thoroughly valuable and absorbing film, with some terrifically managed suspense sequences that might conceivably have been admired by Gillo Pontecorvo.
"Last Resort" is an action-adventure mystery slickly coated with suspense, but some of the uncertainty lies over whether the story can stay afloat for more than a few episodes.
The last quarter of the book works up some genuine suspense, with Mailer deftly cutting between the tangled subplots, trying on bad guys for size before fingering Carlene's killer.
Each round of secret balloting is fraught with suspense, with the 100-plus I.O.C. members often surreptitiously trading allegiances.
"When I was writing the novel, I thought I was writing a supernatural detective story that was filled with suspense with theological overtones.
The book is laden with suspense with deft plot twists, complex characters, and a villain who is among the most ruthless in modern thriller fiction.
Yet this briskly moving and finely acted play, directed and written (in collaboration with its cast) by Michael Perlman, bristles with suspense.
