Sentences with phrase «novel of suspense»

Doctored Evidence is an impeccable novel of suspense that once more finds Commissario Brunetti and his indispensable aid, Signorina Elettra, navigating the murky backwaters of Venetian society.

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen earned international acclaim for her first novel of suspense, Harvest.

But can he trust Jade, or will her secrets lead to his undoing?Ghostwalker is an action - packed novel of suspense se...

He describes it as «a compelling novel of suspense, intrigue and action, all of which converges in an exploration of a number of important moral questions.»

Nancy Bush takes readers on a thrill ride in Nowhere Safe, her danger - filled novel of suspense spiced with romance.

A novel of suspense that explores the complexities of marriage and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.

An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation.

In David Hewson's bold new novel of suspense, this grisly discovery sends Detective Nic Costa on a desperate chase through the streets of his city.

From the book jacket: Rich with the intricacies of book collecting that only an expert like John Dunning can offer, this is a beautifully crafted, enthralling novel of suspense from the consummate bookman himself.

A novel of suspense, family ties, and twisted passions from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obsession...

Under her pseudonym Barbara Michaels, she wrote twenty nine novels of suspense.

He is a graduate of the University of Missouri in Columbia and now spends his time crafting novels of suspense that tackle the complex relationship between science and religion, stories designed to take the reader places he or she may not have previously considered.

When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense, # 1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as «master of the psychological thriller» (People).

In contrast to the carefully researched techno - thrillers that ultimately brought him to fame, the Lange and Hudson books are high - octane novels of suspense and action.

Not exact matches

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.

The last three sections of the novel are so excitingly plotted that the reader is kept in nail - biting suspense.

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.

Won't Be Denied: a suspense novel — a portrait of an... single African American... GA, October 13, 2004: Today there are many single women over the age of thirty.

Given a good basis for a thriller in the Patricia Highsmith novel and a first - rate script, Hitchcock embroiders the plot into a gripping, palm - sweating piece of suspense.

But if you're even a mildly cynical A-section reader and / or devourer of suspense novels, and especially if you've enjoyed the many fine British multipart political thrillers that have graced our airwaves, like To Play the King and A Very British Coup and State of Play, then The State Within will seem either too familiar or too diffuse.

Elizabeth's very cinematic blindness to Darcy's very British advance is the centerpiece of both novel and film, with all suspense drawn from the «will they or won't they» dilemma.

Well, I can answer that rhetorical question: For an interplanetary nail - biter, it's largely devoid of actual suspense, and its much - vaunted sense of humor consists primarily of cutesy faux - irreverence and dad jokes (apparently imported intact from the beloved novel, courtesy of screenwriter Drew Goddard, who's usually wittier).

John M. Stahl's stylish adaptation of Ben Ames Williams» best - selling novel of romance and suspense is one of the most unusual of all» 40's film noirs.

The first installment a surprise hit that coasted on a novel combination of savvy music design and an affable cast led by Anna Kendrick; there were enough B - sides left over to for a watchable second movie; now, the premise is stretched so thin that someone thought it would be a good idea to pad it with an action - suspense subplot involving Fat Amy's (Rebel Wilson) long - lost father / international crimelord (John Lithgow with a sketchy Australian accent).

Woolley, for his part, has promised the new version will be «a dark and Gothic version» with «elements of suspense and terror» — all of which fits with the original novel, as far as I'm concerned — while I presume the period setting will be maintained.

Park Chan - Wook achieves the rank of cinema master with The Handmaiden, which transports Fingersmith, Sarah Waters» novel of hidden identities and lesbian passion, to 1930s South Korea, adding plenty of Hitchcockian suspense in the process.

Based on the graphic novel series by Anthony Johnston and Steven Perkins, This movie is everything that was promised by the trailer: action, suspense, and the falling of old governments with distrust for everyone.

Features commentary by film scholar Dana Polan, a new interview with Gloria Grahame biographer Vincent Curcio, a 20 - minute piece with filmmaker Curtis Hanson produced for the 2002 DVD release, a condensed version of the 1975 documentary I'm a Stranger Here Myself (this runs about 40 minutes), and the radio adaptation of the original novel produced for «Suspense» in 1948, plus a fold - out booklet with an essay by Imogen Sara Smith.

A pair of gray suede gloves abandoned on a department store counter; a small 35 mm still camera obscuring a woman's face except for her eyes; an electric train set; a finger on the disconnect button of a telephone; an ungloved, well - manicured hand resting briefly on another woman's shoulder: Todd Haynes's Carol is not a Hitchcockian thriller, although it is adapted from the second novel by Patricia Highsmith, whose first, Strangers on a Train, was the basis for one of the master of suspense's great movies.

Having just finished the novel, the story seems to offer plenty of intrigue and suspense.

«Alfred Hitchcock's famous explanation about the real difference between surprise and suspense — a bomb exploding with no warning vs. being forewarned about the bomb in advance — lies at the heart of the difference between his film Psycho (based on the Robert Bloch novel) and the new A&E television series «Bates Motel,» which examines Norman Bates» upbringing and the events that will ultimately mold him into a cross-dressing murderer with dual personalities.»

Although the effects are now noticeably outdated, the story itself — with a screenplay co-written by David Koepp («Carlito's Way» and «Death Becomes Her») and Michael Crichton, the novel's author — is a marvel of suspense, adventure, comedy, and nonstop excitement.

The details: The ever - eclectic Irish director Lenny Abrahamson follows up his quirky, heartbreaking alt - rock musical Frank with an adaptation of Emma Donoghue's Booker Prize - shortlisted novel Room, a sensitive suspense story about a child who's been held captive with his mother for his entire life.

It's a marked improvement on Alice Sebold's mediocre novel, and the expertly - crafted and stylishly shot suspense scenes are glimpses of the filmmaker Peter Jackson once was and may still be.

Not so much because of its mystery - suspense plot, reportedly faithful to the Robert Harris novel (Harris and Polanski share screenplay credit).

So - called Master of Suspense (yeah, right) Dean R. Koontz adapted this piece of trash from his lackluster novel and makes one of the most gruesome and dull films to come out in some time.

Annihilation unfolds via potentially unreliable flashbacks told exclusively from Lena's point - of - view, a nod to VanderMeer's novel (journal entries), but an ill - conceived narrative choice, since it robs Annihilation of the present - tense suspense necessary to adequately sustain Lena's exterior and interior journeys for the better part of two hours.

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, is a nail - biting masterpiece of suspense, operating on a philosophical level that is as sophisticated as it is compelling.

An adaptation of an award - winning Japanese suspense novel, the film follows a police detective - turned - university lecturer who is lured back to his old profession after an appeal from a friend, but who soon finds past and present intermingling and this new cold case landing closer to home than he had envisaged.

Based, but not religiously adherent to, John Grisham's novel of the same name, the paranoia and suspense builds as Cruise tries to escape the web he seems entangled firmly in.

His fiction includes Sutherland's Rules, a crime caper / thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic; Black Easter, a supernatural suspense novel which pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island; and Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario's short science fiction work (currently 99 cents on Amazon).

Though they are often sloughed off onto the horror genre, Supernatural Suspense novels have become a staple of the genre - bending best - sellers.

I've been so focused on my new Kindle Scout campaign for Love & Liability that I forgot to tell you that Kindle Press put my supernatural suspense novel on sale for the month of February.

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.

This wrenching story of grief, love and ghosts captivated our reviewer, who said the book «reads like a suspense novel and will keep you turning pages longer than is good for you.

The Coral Thief, as riveting and beautifully rendered as Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stott's first novel, is a provocative and tantalizing mix of history, philosophy, and suspense.

By the way, if you usually get your books from the library and are frustrated by the number of holds on Gone Girl, you might check out The Expats by Chris Pavone, another smart suspense novel that concerns deceptions in marriage.

THERE»S NO PLACE LIKE HOME A bigger switch comes from New York Times best - selling author Connie Brockway, who offers her first contemporary with Hot Dish, a novel that turns out to be that rarest of breeds, a contemporary romance that isn't chick lit or divorce lit or even (much) of a romantic suspense, but a hot main dish for the savvy reader who knows pure romance can be a hearty meal in itself.

FORGET - ME - NOT Wendy Walker continues the theme of psychological suspense with her latest novel, All Is Not Forgotten.

Everybody I know is reading it — people who devour suspense, people who typically don't read «genre» novels, people who aren't usually aware of contemporary fiction.