Preposition: with

• twist: Yes it's just another by the numbers thriller with no new twists.

Converse of object

• crack: Minority Report, his first film with his new best mate Steven Spielberg, was a cracking science fiction thriller.

• pace: A fast paced thriller with a bit of a message thrown in.

• absorb: The book is both a love story and a tense and absorbing thriller.

Adjective modifier

• gripping: The Wind Singer - William Nicholson ( £ 5.99 ): for older readers, a gripping thriller.

• supernatural: For instance, Stir of Echoes was a solid supernatural thriller which was wrongly branded a Sixth Sense clone.

• taut: Ultimately 16 Blocks is a taut little thriller that goes the distance.

• psychological: Most recently he starred in ITV's two-part psychological thriller, ' Donovan ' .

• fast-paced: The TV star, due to give birth next March, plays the lead in fast-paced Northern crime thriller Blue Murder.

• tense: What follows is a tense, brutal thriller that leaves you questioning whether Harris's results justify his means.

Modifies a noun

• serial: Such a situation is found in the new six-part Sunday thriller serial, The Sleeper, which begins tonight.

• genre: He has come from nowhere to being one of the thriller genre 's biggest stars.

• writer: I'll even quote what it says on the back cover ' Other thriller writers talk the talk.

• novel: Adrian Flanagan - new thriller novel, Cobra Adrian Flanagan, english author of the thriller novel Cobra about modern day piracy.

Noun used with modifier

• suspense: Well, Brown weaves them into a modern-day suspense thriller about attempts to discover or destroy evidence of our " true " history.

• sci-fi: You can direct your friends in a sci-fi thriller, animate your own cartoon, or keep a video diary.

• spy: He played three different roles in the third series of the spy thriller series Danger Man.

• noir: They first came to prominence some 20 years ago, with their dark noir thriller, Blood Simple.

• espionage: Krasnoyarsk Surely worthy of the opening chapter of a cold war espionage thriller.

• science-fiction: Seeking finance & company associations, eg product placements for original science-fiction thriller.