Sentences with phrase «in psychological suspense»

The mesmerizing debut about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy «golden couple,» from a stunning new voice in psychological suspense.

If Into the Darkest Corner had you cheering the arrival of a new talent in psychological suspense fiction, you'll be ecstatic about this news: This spring, Harper will publish Haynes» second novel, Dark Tide.

Despite Michael Shannon's powerhouse lead performance in the psychological suspense drama Take Shelter, he was somehow left out of the Best Actor race.

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It has everything from psychological drama, romance, suspense and it's wrapped in a very nice little bow of crazy.

Alex Garland's screenplay is pretty lean in terms of story (in the way that Jaws can be described as lean) and is more concerned with psychological suspense as opposed to philosophical speculation.

Exploring the concerned protagonist's attempts to cope with her own culpability in her offspring's activities, the film weaves a web of psychological suspense that leaves a nightmarish imprint on the watching audience.

A thriller and a mystery, both in the traditional sense and into the human condition, Dolan's psychological examination tremors with suspense and tingles with style.

Part of what makes German director Christian Petzold's pulp psychological thriller so special is the way it wrings complex shades of suspense and disquiet out of very basic techniques, and its finale — the most sublime gasp moment of the year in film — is a master class in simplicity of form, cut almost entirely from just two angles and carried by stars Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld, whose performances have been building to this one exchange of subtleties.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

Goodnight Mommy escalates into the torture film variety in the last act, making the film difficult to stomach when it switches from psychological suspense to physical horror.

Christian Petzold's last film, the masterful Phoenix, drew complex undercurrents of suspicion, psychological unease, and suspense (not to mention one of the greatest endings in contemporary film) out of the noirish story of a disfigured Holocaust survivor who returns to post-war Berlin and is roped into a scheme by the husband who mistakes her for a stranger.

Filmed entirely in Paris in the stark contrasts of black and white, Five Miles to Midnight is a psychological suspense thriller of the highest order.

pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) closes in on little Elsie Beckmann... In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thrillein on little Elsie Beckmann... In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thrilleIn his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.

There is a psychological element in this film that works more as a gimmick than it does as an extra layer of drama or suspense, the savvy viewer should be able to spot this obvious secret pretty early on.

Rather than attempt to recreate the precarious mix of psychological tension and gore struck by Carpenter's version, The Thing favors the latter, maintaining a sideline interest in suspense but no real devotion to prolonging it.

In fiction, she seeks women's fiction, chick lit, psychological thriller, crime, commercial mainstream fiction, literary fiction, mystery, historical, suspense, and romance.

In her free time, Rachel likes reading first and foremost — mostly women's fiction, psychological suspense and young adult — as well as traveling with her husband, spoiling her cat and watching football (go Steelers!)

Tartt's first novel, The Secret History, was a huge bestseller and an instant classic when it was published in 1992 — a sophisticated, erudite novel set in the ever - intriguing world of academia that blended psychological suspense with literary mastery.

Robert Goolrick goes Wolf of Wall Street in his latest, The Fall of Princes, which follows the decline of one man in the fast world of 1980s New York, and the psychological suspense Black - Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin is perfect for readers looking for something to pick up after The Girl on the Train.

In this unforgettable novel he weaves a tale of madness, suspense, love, and terror from a startling and true - life psychological condition so close to home it will stun even his most seasoned readers: autophobia — fear of oneself.

The latest suspense novel from Julia Heaberlin blends «CSI» with psychological drama, as a serial killer's sole survivor finds herself doubting her own past — and her own role in a man's sentencing.

What I have in the final stages is psychological suspense with romantic and supernatural elements.

For fans of psychological suspense: Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy Family secrets and suburban facades crumble in 1958 Detroit when the neighbors of Alder Avenue suspect that the disappearance of mentally disabled Elizabeth may be connected to the death of a black woman at the factory.

She writes under the name R.L. Nolen for her adult novels (the upcoming psychological suspense novel Deadly Thyme, set in England) and Rebecca Nolen for her children's books (The Dry, a suspenseful middle grade historical fantasy).

The votes are in for the books library staff most enjoyed sharing with readers in 2016 and for the second year in a row, the LibraryReads Favorite of Favorites top vote earner is a psychological suspense novel, Ruth Ware's sophomore hit, The Woman in Cabin 10 (S&S; S&S Audio; OverDrive Sample).

One of the most acclaimed novelists in America today, Laura Lippman has greatly expanded the boundaries of mystery fiction and psychological suspense with her Tess Monaghan p.i. series and her New York Times bestselling standalone novels (What the Dead Know, Life Sentences, I'd Know You Anywhere, etc.).

In the tradition of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels comes a deliciously unsettling tale of psychological suspense that delves into the mind of a man with a chilling double life.

What Dennis Lehane does for Boston, Alan Drew does for Southern California in this novel of psychological suspense about an idyllic community rocked by a serial killer - and a dark secret.

Women have always been well represented in the crime genre, but thanks to Gone Girl and the wave of female - penned psychological suspense it inspired, as well as to the wonderful Library of America box set Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s and 1950s, it is no longer possible to think of the genre apart from women's expsuspense it inspired, as well as to the wonderful Library of America box set Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s and 1950s, it is no longer possible to think of the genre apart from women's expSuspense Novels of the 1940s and 1950s, it is no longer possible to think of the genre apart from women's experience.

Every Fifteen Minutes, best - selling author Lisa Scottoline's latest page - turner, effectively draws readers in at two levels, both as gripping psychological suspense and as a vivid look into the tangled realms of the heart.

Enter a realm where fears are physical and memories come alive in this absorbing psychological suspense thriller with a twist, from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of «Special Topics in Calamity Physics» and «Night Film.»

Was it Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train — the explanation du jour for everything in the genre — that prompted the explosion of stand - alone thrillers, and especially those utilizing unreliable narrators and emphasizing psychological suspense?

So far, I have just the one published novel in literary fiction / psychological suspense.

In 2010, she moved to Thomas Dunne Books / Minotaur where she published a wide range of female - oriented crime fiction, from cozies and traditional mysteries to police procedurals to psychological suspense.

Featuring a lineup of New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors — such as Robyn Carr, Heather Gudenkauf, Susan Mallery, Susan Wigs and Sherryl Woods — as well as industry - anticipated debut authors; MIRA is committed to publishing the very best in commercial fiction, including contemporary and historical romance, suspense and psychological thrillers and literary bestsellers.

«Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors — think Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott — who have reinvigorated the literary suspense novel by tapping a rich vein of psychological menace and social unease... there's a certain solace to a dark escape, in the promise of submerged truths coming to light.»

In 2014, she launched the first novel of her trilogy with Dr. Kate Hampton — a psychological mystery / suspense called STRANGER AT SUNSET.

Psychologist - detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in the heart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America's premier writer of psychological suspense, the author of ten successive New York Times bestsellers.

«Enter a realm where fears are physical and memories come alive in this absorbing psychological suspense thriller with a twist, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of «Special Topics in Calamity Physics» and «Night Film.»»

One woman is trapped in the death - grip of the past — and every one of its dark secrets — in this riveting novel of psychological suspense from the award - winning author of The Sisters and...

Lyrical publishes books in all romance genres (specifically suspense and historical novels with unique settings), compelling psychological suspense fiction, thrillers, women's fiction, new adult, and cozy mysteries.