“My whole marriage to her, I finally realized, was a placeholder, leading me to this very day.” — Barbara Avon Copy Share Image
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Faces close, they breathed into each other, their bodies slick with water and sweat.” — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
“Of such things dreams are made of, he thought. But then again what are dreams but wishes come true. -Grace Willows” — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
“But it turned out you couldn't run from your past. It always found a way to track you down.” — Toni Anderson Copy Share Image
“Regarding both Misty and myself he was egotistical, rude, obnoxious, condescending, insensitive, and mean-spirited⎯and those are his good qualities.” — Randall Kenneth Drake Copy Share Image
Daring young sleuth uncovers thrilling, dangerous, adventures goals and solves breathless suspense. — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed,… — Kate White Copy Share Image
“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
“Placing his suitcase on the seat next to him, he unbuttoned his suit jacket, loosened up his necktie and removed his fedora.… — Peprah Boasiako Copy Share Image
“Crossing the line, that's what the Highway Patrol woman said. Neely was on a gurney, his injuries deemed non-life-threatening, she was taking… — Kendric Neal Copy Share Image
“I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Hank Knight asked questions about Jesse Rose and an item that was taken from her crib the night she was kidnapped. His… — B.J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone… — Ed Lynskey Copy Share Image
“Good, Star, because you may have felt you were the one needing saving, but it was me all along. You saved me.… — Mel Ballew Copy Share Image
“We played a couple games of pool and shared a basket of fried shrimp and onion rings. He was a good player,… — Kendric Neal Copy Share Image
“There was an infinitesimal pause while he watched her face, as though he half expected her to recognise it, before he went… — Lee Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough.… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with me, Dan. Whats wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.” — H.E. Fairbanks Copy Share Image
“The war didn’t break everything. It just kept unraveling afterward. The men dragged it back home with them...” — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead. And buried.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“Alexa's heart jumped and skittered. She was at her favorite star's concert. And he was holding her hand!” — Jennette Green Copy Share Image
“When Carri died, I felt like I had lost everything, except my life, and my memories of her. Now I can’t even… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
“You say the naughtiest things for a duke.” He arched a brow. “How many dukes have you known?” She glanced up as… — Juliette Cross Copy Share Image
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic… — J.M. Richards Copy Share Image
“Where you look you follow so never look back and never look down. This quote is especially useful if you happen to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We're going balls to the walls, guys. Our sneak and peak just turned inti a hostage rescue.” — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true” — Bruce A. Sarte Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes,” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.” — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
