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Most Read This Week In Suspense

Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead up to a big event or dramatic moment, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation. In the kind of suspense described by film director Alfred Hitchcock, an audience experiences suspense when they expect something bad to happen and have (or believe they have) a superior perspective on events in the drama's hierarch ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Suspense"

The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
Ward D
Love, Mom
The Housemaid's Wedding (The Housemaid, #2.5)
You Killed Me First
The Summer Guests (The Martini Club, #2)
Wild Dark Shore
Lethal Prey (Lucas Davenport #35; Virgil Flowers #16)
The Sublet
Do You Remember?
Beautiful Exile (Sparrow Falls #4)
Count My Lies
The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie
We Used to Live Here
The Wife Upstairs
The Business Trip
The Woman in the Cabin
Don't Let Her Stay
Want to Know a Secret?
The Arrangement (The Arrangement, #1)
Eleven Numbers
Those Empty Eyes
Pictures of You
The Maidens
The Fourth Girl (Haven Cliff #1)
Now or Never (Stephanie Plum, #31)
Ask for Andrea
A Killing Cold
Tell Me What You Did
The Last Party
Gray After Dark
The Amendment (The Arrangement, #2)
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
The Spy Coast (The Martini Club, #1)
One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
The Drowning Woman
The Best of Friends
The Lake of Lost Girls
Delicate Escape (Sparrow Falls, #2)
Bright Young Women
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)
The Return of Ellie Black
Paranoia (Michael Bennett, #17)
The Next Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #2)
One of Our Own
Missing in Flight
Lies He Told Me
To Die For (The 6:20 Man, #3)
Strange Pictures
In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29)
This Book Will Bury Me
A Very Bad Thing
The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)
Little Secrets
The Swimmer
Not Our Daughter
The Wrong Daughter
The House in the Pines
Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age, #2)
Into the Fall
Juniper Hill (The Edens, #2)
Incidents Around the House
Midnight Black (Gray Man, #14)
The Last Flight
When We Burn (The Blackwells of Montana #1)
Last Patient of the Night (An AJ Docker Medical Thriller, #1)
The Rose Arbor
Inheritance (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #1)
The Last Trip
Tilt
Mr. Whisper (The Specialists, #1)
Gravewater Lake
The Family Experiment
The River We Remember
Eruption
Family of Liars
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead (Finlay Donovan, #2)
The Oligarch's Daughter
All the Lies
A Calamity of Souls
The Wives
A Welcome Reunion
Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)
The Quiet Librarian
Holmes Is Missing (Holmes, Margaret & Poe, #2)
Open Season (Alex Delaware, #40)
No Place Left to Hide
Just Another Missing Person
Presumed Guilty (Presumed Innocent #3)
The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
The Note
The Marriage Act
All the Sinners Bleed
The House of Cross (Alex Cross #33)
The Big Empty (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike #20)
Hemlock
The Orphanage by the Lake
A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3)
Penitence
The Sister Under the Stairs

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