Wessel Ebersohn’s eighth rule of thriller writing
The story of a thriller has to have a line in the same way that a melody has a line. It needs to flow from page to page, sweeping the reader along. In other sorts of novels a single episode may be satisfying in itself, causing the reader to stop there and read it gain. But this is not the way a thriller should work. A thriller must make you want to turn the page. Your reader must want to know what happens next. If you are successful, your reader will be impatient to know what is on the next page, no matter what part of the book is being read, and will read deep into the night.
