Suspense

You know what is coming; that is the point. Dread built from anticipation rather than surprise — the reader holds information the characters do not.

On the Crime & Suspense shelf.

Books shelved as Suspense

• Exhume — Danielle Girard
• The Green Mile — Stephen King
• Heart-Shaped Box — Joe Hill
• Stillhouse Lake — Rachel Caine
• Lovely, Dark, and Deep — Susannah Sandlin
• Estoy pensando en dejarlo (AdN) — Iain Reid
• The Last Flight — Julie Clark
• NOS4A2 — Joe Hill
• Haunting Adeline — H. D. Carlton
• Goth — Otsuichi
• The Boy Who Followed Ripley — Patricia Highsmith
• Final Approach — John J. Nance
• Sharp Objects — Gillian Flynn
• Surrender Your Sons — Adam Sass
• Remarkably Bright Creatures — Shelby Van Pelt
• Ripley Under Water — Patricia Highsmith
• Maidens of the Cave — Lloyd Devereux Richards
• Nowhere — Allison Gunn
• The Martian — Andy Weir
• Dear Child — Romy Hausmann
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead — Olga Tokarczuk
• The Housemaid — Freida McFadden
• La sombra del viento — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Running Man — Richard Bachman

Related genres

• Mystery
• Thriller
• Crime Fiction
• Espionage
• Crime Noir
• Legal Thriller
• Political Thriller
• Techno-Thriller
• Cozy Mystery
• Heist

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