Ms. Lanigan, the author of almost 20 books including "Romancing the Stone," said she was typecast in the romantic suspense genre.

Take that staple of the suspense genre, the woman-in-peril narrative.

In the horror and the suspense genres, laziness almost always translates into some graphic crudity: the popped eyeball, the slashed throat, the decaying zombie.

Just the kind of person to rescue the psychological suspense genre from its surfeit of perfect heroines.

Shot in London by his usual cinematographer, Timo Salminen, its rich deep colors suggest the artifice of the suspense genre.

Duncan Kyle, a British practitioner of the suspense genre, has peeked once again into that corner with convoluted but engaging results.

His books are classified as suspense genre.

He was concerned however, that returning to the suspense genre was dangerous for him as it could be regarded as a step backward in his career.

Though the Dardennes' films are scrupulously naturalistic, they all belong to the suspense genre, though it is a suspense of character, not of plot.

The company has continued to make films in the action, musical, horror and suspense genres.