Sentences with phrase «best suspense»

The season's best suspense novels share a striking commonality: The main characters are saddled with names that practically guarantee choruses of snickers behind their backs, from Flavia de Luce to shady character Junior Bender.

He has been a Christy Award finalist (A Ship Possessed) and an Angel Award winner (Terminal Justice) and recently received the ACFW award for best suspense / thriller for his work onFallen Angel.

The author is a Pulitzer Prize - winning Chicago Tribune journalist, and her book has received advanced praise from four of the best suspense novelists around: Dennis Lehane, Scott Turow, Laura Lippman and Tom Franklin.

The nice fellow on the other end of the email said he'd learned of my novel as a result of it winning the «Best Suspense Thriller» category in last year's Next Generation Indie Publishing Awards, sort of the poor man's Edgars.

And this roller coaster ride contains as thrilling a rush as the best suspense novels.

Not only did it show the pundits that Shyamalan wasn't just a one - hit wonder, but it reconfirmed his status as one of the best suspense directors of our time.

Included in the record 32 categories were three new additions: Best Stunt Ensemble, Best Suspense Thriller and Best Voice Performance.

Wait Until Dark (1967) One of the best suspense films ever made, a tour - de-force for Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.

clouzot deserves far more respect than he receives in the U.S., and this film simply adds to his legacy of astoundingly good suspense and horror films.

Both are interesting but it's the latter that finally gives some meat to this fluff and generates some good suspense.

Like all good suspense stories, the screenplay relies on an ominous musical score and overcast, rain - soaked scenes to propel the story along.

However, those viewers looking for a good suspense film that breaks new ground will be very disappointed by the unrealistic set - up and poor delivery.

I love a good suspense story — especially if it includes national scandal, an illicit romance, government intrusion and an alternate future where church and state is no longer separate.

And I agree T - Mobile looks on track in 2010 HTC HD2 already announced, Windows 6.5 released, Nexus One, Garmin phone coming to the spotlight, Nokia and T - Mobile look like they are becoming good friends, LG and T - Mobile look to be talking phones, HTC and T - Mobile are becoming good friends, and Motorola looks to be a good suspense movie after some T - Mobile employee asked a Motorola worker if T - mobile was getting the Droid he looked at the employee and smiled and people assumed that that means yes.

Stephen King claims Abrahams as his «favorite suspense novelist» and describes Down The Rabbit Hole as «one walloping good suspense yarn».

Good suspense, well developed characters and an excellent grip on the manners and mores of the time (WW2 to late 1950s).

Not exact matches

The characters are well - defined and Moriarty is great at building the suspense of the big «who did it?»

It all left fans ready to throw their money at the star — the album Lemonade went platinum in two months, and the tour sold out — and proved no one uses suspense to sell as well as Beyoncé.

But I will say this Jordan Peele wrote a masterpiece that has horror, drama, suspense and comedy in it... And it all was good so hey maybe it just fits in a bunch of categories!!!

Our story of Judah and his daughter - in - law Tamar, as also in fact the book of Ruth, indicates that in early Israel the levirate obligation might be extended to any near male relative.9 We note finally that this is a good story, not, obviously, in the sense that it is morally elevating (it candidly reflects the morality of the age), but in the remarkably graphic portrayal of character, especially Tamar, the deft integration of plot, and the skillful employment of suspense.

This was good training for a kid who would one day become a writer of adventure and suspense novels, but it also taught me that words and thoughts should have integrity.

Nonetheless it is remarkable to find these ancient authors employing all the modern devices of the literary craftsman, surprise and suspense, rapidity and delay, humor and solemnity, vividness, realism, untempered callousness, dramatic shift of scene — all permeated with their feeling for what is intrinsically interesting, what makes a good story.

I always like a good fight; the chance, the suspense, interest me.

The first one was a good story, full of action, mystery and suspense and it wrapped up nicely at the end.

This uncertainty (the nothingness of the antecedent non-being — the possible «how» corresponding to the actual «thus») will exist for him as well as for a contemporary; his mind will be in a state of suspense exactly as was the mind of a contemporary.

We note in any case, and emphatically, that it is, like so much in the patriarchal narratives, a very good story indeed especially in the graphic portrayal of Tamar, in its deft integration of plot, and in its fine suspense.

The current system has been in place since 2006, taking the best bits of the one - hour session (the last few minutes) and making that feeling of suspense last for the whole hour.

The match was well - constructed to keep her on the sideline to build suspense and prevent exposing a surely still - limited move set, but she surprised by breaking out a hurricanrana on Triple H, showing she'll get to use her full athleticism, rather than just be cast as the scary grappler who breaks people's arms.

My bench is bigger and better than yours Substitutions were the key to the late suspense and excitement as Gladbach edged out Leverkusen 2 - 1 in a Rhine derby fashioned from Champions League material.

The whole season may well unfold as a long running reality TV show where the suspense is whether it is this week where the manager will be finally voted off or whether he will make it through to the grand finale in May.

With the taut suspense of a spy novel, Voigt paints a vivid world of murder, black market deals and habitat destruction surrounding a fish that's considered, ironically, to be a good - luck charm.

From a climate change perspective, 2015 had all the elements of a good drama: suspense, a surprise twist and a (somewhat) happy ending.

Well anyways, so he actually does go to England and sneaks, by hiding in a trunk — okay, I'm not going to reveal what happens so your listeners will still be in some suspense as to whether or not he's able to seduce the wife of -

A quick moving suspense thriller that is so well written that even if you guess all the «twists», it's still a good read.

Godzilla, while not a perfect movie by any means, at least built tension and suspense throughout the movie ultimately leading us to a well - deserved reveal of the legendary God of Monsters that feels truly satisfying.

With online dating, you can still experience the mystery and excitement that surrounds meeting someone new, as well as those moments of suspense, waiting for them to contact you.

Well, since I'm not the kind of guy who keeps the audience in suspense until the end of his review, I'll tell you straight - out: This site is excellent!

The whole finale is white - knuckled, some of the best aciton and suspense film - making I've ever seen.

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

Director Andrew Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror movies and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of cinematic, fright - inducing effects.

The film had a good, creepy atmosphere, but it also lacked the suspense that the remake had.

But its undeniably quite fun to watch Liotta freak out, sure everybody pretty much gets killed off straight away and the suspense direction doesn't really work (cos its not scary at all), but its still quite good nonsense.

... an incredibly lame suspense flick that may as well have come from a book entitled «Paint - By - Numbers Thriller Writing.»

It is intelligent, intriguing, and topical, but it too often gets mired in its own good intentions, too many plot convolutions, and character ambiguities that try to pass for suspense.

De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well - practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about.

A good mixture of being obvious and suspense!

It's slightly frustrating that Winslet's character Alex is nearly always the one who needs looking after, but the chemistry between them is good, the suspense sufficient and the ending gives you a gentle tug on the heartstrings.

It tries to create suspense about the survival of Bilbo, who we know full well is going to live long enough to be in the «Rings» films.

Norwegian director Roar Uthaug has had past success with nail - biting suspense, as in his well - received 2015 disaster movie «The Wave.»

Really good movie, holds a strong purpose other than a suspense or action movie.