Sentences with phrase «psychological suspense»
Psychological suspense refers to a type of storytelling that keeps the audience in tension and anticipation by focusing on the characters' thoughts, emotions, and mental states rather than relying on action-packed events. It plays with our minds, making us wonder and question what is happening in the story, and creates a sense of psychological unease or fear. Full definition
An addictive novel of psychological suspense by the bestselling author of The Girl on the Train.
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What I have in the final stages is psychological suspense with romantic and supernatural elements.
This atmospheric psychological suspense tale is about a man who is haunted by the past and discovers the chilling truth about his mother's secret.
And even on a first viewing, there's sufficient understanding to generate hardcore psychological suspense.
My material is a mixed pouch of psychological suspense and mystery I hope to emerge soon as I have written 27 engaging stories.
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.»
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.
- Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Buried Secrets and Paranoia «Every year I read a new psychological suspense novel by a new author that I rave about for months... This year it's Close My Eyes.
This perfectly paced psychological suspense story is a roller - coaster ride through paranoia and manipulation.
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.
A powerhouse, razor - sharp novel of psychological suspense from blazing new talent Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth raises more questions than it answers — and will leave you guessing until its shocking conclusion.
Some months ago I encountered British psychological suspense author Maggie James, who graciously interviewed me for her blog.
Coinciding with its US release this Friday, a new clip has arrived online from Dito Montiel's upcoming psychological suspense thriller Man Down featuring Shia LaBeouf and Kate Mara, which you can watch below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Watch the latest trailer for Man Down When U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer (Shia LaBeouf) returns home from his tour -LSB-...]
Tana French's particular brand of psychological suspense really strikes a chord with readers.
The must - read thriller of 2018, this riveting and relentlessly compelling psychological suspense debut weaves a mystery about a childhood game gone dangerously awry that will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking ending.
VR Barkowski writes psychological suspense from her adopted home on Boston's North Shore.
* May 1, 2014: I'm delighted with this interview of me, conducted and published by British psychological suspense author Maggie James on her blog.
Vincent will be guest appearing at blogs throughout the U.S. and international regions talking about his phenomenal new psychological suspense thriller that critics are calling riveting, creepy and crazy good!
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.
The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich Authors Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment team up as A.J. Rich to tell a smart, twisty novel of psychological suspense about a woman who discovers her (former) fiance has quite a secret life.
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.
Dark as night, but literary psychological suspense at its best.
«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.»»
My main fear was that the subtle psychological suspense that proved so effective in the original film would be replaced with an overabundance of high tech visual effects.
The # 1 choice by librarians for the January 2017 LibraryReads list is The Girl Before by JP Delaney (PRH / Ballantine; RH Audio), a domestic psychological suspense novel.
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.
# 20: THE TIN HORSE by Janice Steinberg «Steinberg, the author of five mysteries, has transcended genre to weave a rich story that will appeal to readers who appreciate multigenerational immigrant family sagas as well as those who simply enjoy psychological suspense.»
The publisher describes the book as «another harrowing, gripping novel that marries psychological suspense with an emotionally powerful story about a community struggling with the consequences of a devastating discovery.»
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For anyone already familiar with this series it should be a given that the authors deliver a neatly packaged plot laced with psychological suspense reminiscent of Agatha Christine, Arthur Conan Doyle and P.D. James, but what raises the series above the mass of historical detective mysteries are the memorable characters, the subtlety of the plot - twists, the evocative, fully - realized settings and, most of all, the war - damaged, painfully slow - healing character of Rutledge himself.
BRYAN E. ROBINSON's debut novel, Limestone Gumption, won the 2015 New Apple Book Medal for Best Psychological Suspense, theBeverly Hills Book Award for Best Mystery, the Silver IPPY Award for Outstanding Mystery of the Year, the Bronze Award for Best Mystery from Foreword Reviews» INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, and the USA Regional Excellence Book Award for Best Fiction in the Southeastern U.S.
No one does psychological suspense like French, and seeing her delve into the psyche of a female detective for the first time should be fascinating.
From the two - time Booker Prize — winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction.
And therein lies the fun, both between the covers of The Woman in the Window, the new year's most audacious psychological suspense debut, and in the intriguing, real - life turn of the table by its pseudonymous author, A.J. Finn.
Readers of the Tea Shop Mysteries, Scrapbook Mysteries and Cackleberry Club Mysteries will discover Schmitt's latest novel to be something completely different, a work of psychological suspense unlike anything she's ever written.
The Bridesmaid, Ruth Rendell (1989) Though well known for her Inspector Wexford series, Rendell's standalone psychological suspense novels are darker, bleaker and clearly influenced by Patricia Highsmith, often adopting the criminal's point of view.
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 experience.
It's part social satire, part psychological suspense, laced with literary and classical allusions.
A novel of taut psychological suspense, offering an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of the men and women who live there.
Writers of psychological suspense make it their business to keep readers guessing.
Give this intense book to patrons freely, but especially target those who are fatigued with the current spate of female - driven psychological suspense.
«Disturbing psychological suspense with an unreliable narrator.
Few manage psychological suspense as consistently gripping as Laura Lippman, so consider us signed up for her next thriller.
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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?
The Guilty Wife: A thrilling psychological suspense with twists and turns that grip you to the very last page
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