suspenseful

The laughter and groans, the suspenseful silence of those watching play as big a part as whatever is happening on stage.

Abbott is especially adept at rendering the hot, messy inner lives of young people and at making a book’s backstory as suspenseful as the narrative engine that drives the plot.

I wrote this novel in the hopes of humanizing and illuminating this disturbing disparity through an emotionally resonant and suspenseful story.

To say how Sugar Hill’s Black residents fared in court would spoil the enjoyment of this suspenseful tale, which has put Lurie on a new path in writing historical fiction.

Indeed, this becomes so routine it can hardly be called suspenseful, apart from wondering if maybe the writers will send him in a different direction the next time.