Keeping The Reader In Suspense

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Kepler. She was a beautiful young lady who was really strange and mysterious. Grafton introduces weirdness as one of Lorna's characteristics to create suspense. Lorna was a loner and did not have a lot of friends, and she rarely talked to people. No one really knew her and a lot of people were jealous of her. What creates mystery is the fact that Lorna was a prostitute and that she couldn’t resists flirting with danger. Prostitution is associated with danger, with pimps, johns, and with money and drugs. All those things are illegal, and they are creating suspense. Sue Grafton creates suspense by letting the reader know that Lorna had a double life, and by describing the person Lorna was. In “From Potter’s Field” the main character is Temple Gault. He was described to be the most dangerous killer. His characteristics and physical appearance create suspense because he was a noticeable person. He was “medium height, thin, with strange sharp features and very intensive blue ...

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the cabin and the woods create suspense. Most of the places described in the book and most of the people Lorna knew were strange, mysterious and dark. The power plant where Lorna worked was described as the place where there was always night and the only moon that shone was from a two hundred-watt bulb. Sue Grafton also described the plant as a place below the ground level where dead people could be kept and no one would be able to find them. This also creates suspense because the reader is expecting to find dead people there, or is expecting for something bad to happen in that power plant. Similarly, Patricia Cornwell chose to set her story up in the city of New York, in the dark. ...

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