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Amping Up Tension and Suspense to Keep Readers Turning Pages

Learn why a lack of tension and suspense may be what’s keeping you from that publishing contract, plus more from Writer's Digest!
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📚 When the Storm Passes by: Manel Loureiro

In the summer, the Isle of Ons is a vacation paradise. But in the winter, when nature is unpredictable and supply boats are rare, Ons is far less inviting.

Yet the off season is perfect for Roberto Lobeira, who hopes to find peace and inspiration to write his new novel....

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The Hour She Borrowed A Samantha Leary Short Story

https://wearewisethinkers.com/2026/04/21/the-hour-she-borrowed-a-samantha-leary-short-story/

Writing Slow-Burn Suspense in a Fast-Content World: How Writers Can Build Momentum Without Relying on Shock

Author Michael Cowan explains the process of writing slow-burn suspense in a fast-content world, with examples of tools and books to read.
The post Writing Slow-Burn Suspense in a Fast-Content World: How Writers Can Build Momentum Without Relying on Shock appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-slow-burn-suspense-in-a-fast-content-world-how-writers-can-build-momentum-without-relying-on-shock

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Looking for Action & Adventure, or Mystery & Suspense books this weekend?

Check out this Bookfunnel event: https://bf.sophiemaddon.com/great_fiction/sjuzqwen7g

PS: One of my novels is in there 🙂 - as per a reviewer, it's a YA combination of Portal Sci-Fi, Slice of Life, Light Sci-Fi, Comedy and later on, the story veers into a suspense direction.

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📚 What Happened Next by: Edwin Hill

A young man investigating his father's crimes is determined to uncover the truth in a gripping novel of suspense about family secrets, betrayal, and the weight of the past.
What do I remember about the murder on the lake?

Charlie Kilgore was too young to remember anythin...

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Looking for FREE* Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense ebooks? Check out this event on BookFunnel- 140 authors (GASP) brought you their best!

PS: there's an excerpt of my YA novel in there 😉

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📚 Bald-Faced Liar by: Victoria Helen Stone

Traveling nurse Elizabeth May has a promising new home in Santa Cruz. And another new identity. It's a pattern of reinvention for a woman escaping her traumatic childhood and hiding from the decades of notoriety and destruction that followed.Invisibility has kept Eliza...

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https://medium.com/the-writers-reach/the-art-of-the-reveal-3cb24b1dad1e

Reveals are the pressure valves of suspense fiction. They release tension, redirect reader expectation, and reframe the story’s emotional stakes.

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📚 Behind These Four Walls by: Yasmin Angoe

Isla Thorne had a rough start in life. Orphaned young, she spent her formative years in a group home where she met her best friend, Eden Galloway. At sixteen, they decide to run away to LA...but Eden never makes it.

It's been ten years since Eden vanished. And Isla...

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📚 Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by: Stephen King

Red's a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine's corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn't count on is an unexpected friendship forged with fellow inmate Andy Dufr...

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📚 Dear Debbie by: Freida McFadden

Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their h...

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📚 The Friend of the Family by: Dean Koontz

The human "oddities" in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely l...

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📚 Departure by: A. G. Riddle

En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind.

Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the worl...

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📚 Artificial Truth by: J. M. Lee

In the virtual city of Alegria, fantasies are made real, innumerable lifetimes are lived, and even death itself is a survivable experience. An escape from reality that changed the landscape of artificial intelligence, it is home to more than one hundred million people. Though it's been six years sin...

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📚 The Bad Weather Friend by: Dean Koontz

Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a gia...

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📚 Deep Freeze by: Michael C. Grumley

The accident came quickly. With no warning. In the dead of night, a precipitous plunge into a freezing river trapped everyone inside the bus. It was then that Army veteran John Reiff’s life came to an end. Extinguished in the sudden rush of frigid water.

There was no expecta...

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📚 The Family Experiment by: John Marrs

The world’s population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them.

But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative. For a monthly ...

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📚 Upgrade by: Blake Crouch

At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little... sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.

But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To hi...

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📚 The Match by: Harlan Coben

After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life.

Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde clo...

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📚 Broken Country (Reese's Book Club) by: Clare Leslie Hall

The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.

Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a d...

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📚 Caught Up by: Navessa Allen

I wanted this woman, and I was a man who always got what he wanted.

Nico Junior Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti is off limits. She is sweetness and laughter, whereas Junior exists in a world of violence and depravity. Men like him don’t get to have women like her. It’s why he pushed her away back in hi...

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📚 You Like It Darker by: Stephen King

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, abou...

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📚 The Widow by: John Grisham

Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it.

Once he hooks the riche...

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What Makes a Thriller Work Without On-Screen Gore and Crafting Suspense Through Restraint

Author Courtney Psak breaks down what makes a thriller work without on-screen gore and crafting suspense through restraint.
https://www.writersdigest.com/what-makes-a-thriller-work-without-on-screen-gore-and-crafting-suspense-through-restraint

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📚 Hole in the Sky by: Daniel H. Wilson

On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a down-on-his-luck single father trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Tawny. At NASA’s headquarters in Houston, Texas, astrophysicist Dr. ...

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📚 Dark Matter by: Blake Crouch

Are you happy with your life?

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. 

Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.

Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “W...

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📚 Labyrinth by: A.G. Riddle

Alan Norris has lost everything. Except for his daughter. And he's willing to do anything to protect her.

The day of his wife's funeral, as he's walking to give the eulogy, the ringing in his ears starts. His tinnitus began when he was in the Marines, the day a roadside bomb went off. Us...

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📚 Tourist Season by: Brynne Weaver

Welcome to Cape Carnage! Visit Once, Stay Forever.

You can hide in the farthest reaches of the deepest hell, and I will still drag you out. Even the devil can’t save you from me.

Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. With tourists comes...

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