Most Read This Week In 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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Suspense"

The Witch
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
Ward D
Death Row
The French Illusion (The French Illusion, #1)
Warm Bodies
Big Little Truths (Big Little Lies, #2)
Miss Wolcott's Ghost (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #21)
Chain Reaction (Jack Reacher, #31)
Rock Paper Scissors
It Could Have Been Her
We Chase Shadows (We Solve Murders, #2)
The Hollow (Harry Bosch, #26; Harry Bosch Universe, #43)
Mademoiselle le Sleuth (Paris Backstage Murders)
Incidents Around the House
The Housewife
Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel
Sometimes I Scare Myself: A Collection of Horror
Trust No One
Not Quite Dead Yet
The Charity Shop Detective Agency (The Charity Shop Detective Agency, #1)
The Family Cross (Alex Cross, #36)
Strange Pictures
The Secrets We Hide (North Falls, #2)
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Getting Away with Murder
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
Judge Stone
Dissection of a Murder
Woman Down
Heart of Glass (Wonderland #2)
It's Not What You Think
The Detective's Wife
The Last to Drown
On a Quiet Street
Heartwood
Look What the Cat Dragged In
The Anniversary
Forget You Saw Her (Ask for Andrea, #0)
The Dinner Party: A Pick Your Poison Adventure
Trad Wife
The Caretaker
The Woman I've Become
The Amateur
Ironwood (Catalina, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #42)
Caller Unknown
Love, Mom
Whalefall
Five
Fury in Death (In Death, #63)
The Last House on Needless Street
Kill for Me, Kill for You
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
Until She Dies (Noelle Marshall, #3)
Guess Again
The Maidens
Old Ham
Tell Me What You Did
Ransom
Dive Bar at the End of the Road
Those Empty Eyes
The Favorite Girl
Run for Your Life
The Shadow Friends (The Martini Club, #3)
The Dying Light (Two Rivers, #4)
One Split Second (Tracy Crosswhite, #12)
Hope Rises
Her Last Breath
Heather
Other Worlds Than These (The Talisman, #3)
Next of Kin
21 Days of Fear: One Day, One Letter
The Ex-Wives Club
Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)
Nightshade (Catalina, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #40)
You'll Be Sorry
Delusional (Michael Bennett #18)
The Bewitching
Into the Fading Twilight (Starlight Grove, #2)
You Know Why
The Missing Half
You'll Never Know
It Should Have Been You
Nash Falls (Walter Nash, #1)
Long Time Gone
Pretty Dead Things
26 Beauties (Women's Murder Club, #26)
How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man] (Vera Wong, #2)
Double Tap (Mitch Rapp #25)
The Women in White
The Black Orchid
The Spider Silk Scarf: A Short Story
Her First Mistake (Noelle Marshall, #1)
The Keeper (Cal Hooper, #3)
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates
We Live Here Now
The Family Friend
Everyone Is Lying to You

J. Rose Black
“ Callan sucked in a breath. As a sniper, he’d been trained by the Marines to know and recognize moments.  Moments when all the training—his focused mind, muscle memory, weapon knowledge . . .  When all the preparation—target reconnaissance, angle of attack, position scouting . . .  When all the setup—hidden amid the terrain, barrel aimed, trajectory known . . .  When everything came together in one crucial moment—when the sniper squeezed the trigger and took his shot. ”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

Lotchie Burton
“ Everybody has scars, and every scar has a story. Especially the ones you don’t see. Those go deeper. And cause more damage. ”
― Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

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