In a suspense novel, the sense of worry or anticipation is very high because the reader is aware of things that the protagonist is not. This creates even more anxiety in the reader, causing the novel to be more suspenseful than a mystery or thriller.
Despite their differences, it is very possible that your book may fall into two—maybe even all three—of these categories. Whether your story is about trying to solve a murder or a protagonist trying to save the human population from extinction, this conflict will be the center of what makes your reader eager to find out what happens.
You can also have smaller conflicts that build off of your main conflict to build even more suspense around your plot. The pace of your novel is another important component to building suspense. Build more suspense with quick pacing, such as giving your conflict a deadline or a short time limit to solve the problem. Red herrings are clues in your story that mislead readers. These are extremely important in suspense because they send your readers down incorrect paths and keep them from solving the mystery before the end.
The mood and tone of your novel are things that will affect how readers feel when they read your book. Where your story is set and the atmosphere it brings to the overall plotline will help build suspense in your novel. For example, setting your story in a dark, abandoned building will make readers feel more on-edge than a busy theme park on a sunny day.
Similar to conflict and time, you need your story to have high stakes if you want it to be suspenseful. That's exactly what happens when her editor calls her to her house one night, and Bailey discovers the live-in nanny is dead!
Was she the real target, or was Bailey's editor meant to die instead? She's on the case. If you're going to read a cozy, might as well start with the Queen of Mystery! In this Miss Marple mystery, set in the village of Chipping Cleghorn, a murder is announced in the local paper. The locals are flummoxed and intrigued, certain it's a prank, but when they gather at the appointed time and place, the lights go out and a shot is heard, and someone winds up dead.
Only Miss Marple can unwind this mystery! Theodosia is the owner and proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, SC and she happily makes her living peddling teas out of her shop and catering tea parties and events. But when a guest at a tea party is found dead, clutching his tea cup full of Theo's dajeerling, suspicion falls upon her and it's up to her to clear her name and salvage her business!
When the delivery driver for the local dairy farm is found dead behind her shop and crumbles of her famous cookies sprinkled around his body. Hannah needs to clear her name and prove that her business is above reproach, and fast. Characters In cozy mysteries, the protagonist is an amateur sleuth who is quite often a woman. Settings Authors really let their creativity shine through with the settings of cozy mysteries! The Crimes No on-the-page violence, murder, sex, or swearing are the tenets of the cozy mystery genre.
Recommended Reading There are so many options and subgenres of cozy mystery—animal cozies, historical cozies, contemporary cozies, food cozies…it can be hard to narrow down exactly what you might love.
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