Suspense

Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead up to a big event or dramatic moment, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation. In the kind of suspense described by film director Alfred Hitchcock, an audience experiences suspense when they expect something bad to happen and have (or believe they have) a superior perspective on events in the drama's hierarch ...more

High Season
Doll Parts
One Dark Night
Five Found Dead
Departure 37
She Didn't Stand a Chance
Stillwater
A Noble Sin (Emma Noble #2)
Flashout
The Guest Children
Gone in the Night (Detective Annalisa Vega, #5)
Shadow Play
Light of Day
Tortured Hearts (Marchesi Empire #2)
A Touch of Treachery (Section 47, #3)
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    Death Row (Alibis Collection, #1)
    She Didn't See It Coming
    We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1)
    Framed in Death (In Death, #61)
    Not Quite Dead Yet
    Rock Paper Scissors
    The Compound
    Forget Me Not
    The Missing Half
    Strange Houses
    We Used to Live Here
    Strange Pictures
    The Wife Upstairs
    Gone Girl
    The Girl on the Train
    The Silent Patient
    Verity
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    The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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