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MatchUp
\"In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille. The stories are edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Night We Burned
A new psychological thriller from suspense powerhouse S.F.Kosa featuring a decades-old secret, a mysterious cult fire, and a woman looking to outrun the ashes of her past...until they come roaring back once more.Dora is always aware of the line between fact and fiction.As a fact checker at an online magazine, her job depends on it.
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Him
It all started with him. Catherine has become mute. She has witnessed something so disturbing that she simply can't speak - not to her husband, her children, or her friends. The doctors say the only way forward is to look into her past. Catherine needs to start with him. Lucian. Catherine met the love of her life at university and was drawn into his elite circle of privileged, hedonistic friends. But one night it all falls apart and she leaves him, shattering his life forever. Still, 15 years later, Lucian haunts every one of Catherine's quiet moments, and when they are unexpectedly reunited, their love reignites with explosive force. But they can't move on from what happened all those years ago. In fact, uncovering the truth will cause their lives to implode once again. This time, with disastrous consequences.
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Wolf's Mouth
In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and shipped to a POW camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where the senior POW, the ruthless Kommandant Vogel, demands that all prisoners adhere to his Nazi dictates. His life threatened, Verdi escapes from the camp and meets up with an American woman, Chiara Frangiapani, who helps him elude capture as they flee to the Lower Peninsula. By 1956 they have become Frank and Claire Green, a young married couple building a new life in postwar Detroit. When INS agent James Giannopoulos tracks them down, Frank learns that Vogel is executing men like Frank for their wartime transgressions. As a series of brutal murders rivets Detroit, Frank is caught between American justice and Nazi vengeance. In Wolf ’s Mouth, the recollections of Francesco Verdi/Frank Green give voice to the hopes, fears, and hard choices of a survivor as he strives to escape the ghosts of history.
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The mentor : a thriller
\"Kyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house. When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn't be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to his girlfriend, Jamie, and the three have a great time. When William mentions that he's been writing a novel, Kyle is overjoyed. He would love to read the opus his mentor has toiled over. Until the novel turns out to be not only horribly written, but the most depraved story Kyle has read. After Kyle politely rejects the novel, William becomes obsessed, causing trouble between Kyle and Jamie, threatening Kyle's career, and even his life. As Kyle delves into more of this psychopath's work, it begins to resemble a cold case from his college town, when a girl went missing. William's work is looking increasingly like a true crime confession. Lee Matthew Goldberg's The Mentor is a twisty, nail-biting thriller that explores how the love of words can lead to a deadly obsession with the fate of all those connected and hanging in the balance\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Unreliable Truths and Buried Traumas: The Craft of Suspense in Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island and Mystic River
This paper examines the role of suspense in Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island and Mystic River, focusing on the themes of unreliable truths and buried traumas. Both novels create a sense of uncertainty by employing unreliable narration and fragmented memories, which keep readers questioning the nature of reality. In Shutter Island, the blurring of madness and reality challenges the reader’s perception of truth. In Mystic River, hidden traumas from the past continuously shape the present, creating an underlying tension that unfolds gradually. The construction of suspense is achieved not just through plot developments, but by exploring the emotional and psychological complexities that arise from unresolved past experiences. The paper argues that Lehane’s use of suspense goes beyond traditional thriller tropes, serving as a tool to delve into deeper themes of trauma, identity, and moral ambiguity. The study demonstrates that suspense in Lehane’s work is a means to explore the instability of truth and the long-lasting impact of the past, creating a more profound narrative experience that challenges the boundaries of reality and perception.
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The Rhetoric of \Suspense\ in the Story of Rostam and Sohrab
The technical and artistic research of Europeans on fictional literature, their attention to various storytelling techniques, and their identification of story elements in a systematic and coherent manner, have provided the basis for examining the tradition of Iranian storytelling and story writing to find ideas and opinions on these issues. They have also provided the basis for evaluating our poetic and prose narrative texts from the perspective of the art of story writing and the function of story elements in them. In relation to this issue, the present study, which is structured using a descriptive-analytical method and relying on library sources, aims to investigate the fictional element of \"suspension\" and examines its function in one of the most famous stories in the Shahnameh of Hakim Abul-Qasim Ferdowsi (239-416 AH), which is the highest peak of epic verse storytelling in Persian literature. First, the story element of \"suspense\" (state of expectation) is introduced, and ideas and theories about it. Then, its origins in the Islamic-Iranian storytelling and story-writing tradition are examined. Next, the way in which suspense is reflected in the story of Rostam and Sohrab from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh has been technically analyzed because this story has emerged as a very strong story due to possessing this story element. It has reflected some of the dimensions of the vastness and grandeur of Ferdowsi's storytelling art.
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Enjoying the possibility of defeat: Outcome uncertainty, suspense, and intrinsic motivation
In two studies, the relevance of outcome uncertainty and suspense for intrinsic motivation was examined. In Study 1, participants played a competitive zero-sum video game in which outcome uncertainty during the game (operationalized as the degree of parity between player–opponent scores) was manipulated. Greater outcome uncertainty led to greater enjoyment, and this effect was mediated by suspense. Although outperforming one’s opponent by a wide margin maximized perceived competence, these games were less enjoyable than closer games with higher outcome uncertainty. These findings were extended in Study 2, which incorporated a behavioral measure of intrinsic motivation. Participants chose to play games they previously rated as relatively high in suspense but relatively low in perceived competence over games which provided higher perceptions of competence but less suspense. Performance concern moderated this effect. Implications of the findings for theories of intrinsic motivation, and possible avenues for future research, are discussed.
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