Keeping The Reader In Suspense
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Why are mystery novels so interesting, and how does the author make the reader’s heart pound hard with suspense by just reading the novel? People like reading mystery novels because there is always a question, such as who is the killer and what was the motive for killing, asked at the beginning ....
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.... and by getting to know about the characters the reader is kept in suspense. He wants to continue reading and finding more about those strange and different people introduced in the book. In “K is for Killer” the victim is Lorna 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 ....
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