International bestselling author Lee Child published an article in the New York Times recently titled "A Simple Way to Create Suspense."
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/a-simple-way-to-create-suspense/?ref=todayspaper
In it, he states: "As novelists, we should ask or imply a question at the beginning of the story, and then we should delay the answer...the principle works in a micr…