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We're a team of crime fiction loving writers and readers bringing authors and readers together via interviews, reviews, articles and from 2025, phsyical and online events. Find out more at www.interviewroomone.com
Join us this week with @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social discussing turning her obsession with The Traitors into her new book, the importance of treating writing as a job, & the joys of a TBR pile that’s making its inexorable way across her office.
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April 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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April 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A new week and our first video interview: we spoke to @evesmithauthor.bsky.social about her new novel 'The Cure' out this week from @orendabooks.bsky.social . Watch it here: interviewroomone.com/eve-smith-in...
April 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Our new April crime fiction quiz is up now- have a go and share with your friends if you’re feeling competitive :) interviewroomone.com/quiz-time/
April 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“It might seem strange for someone who has had 23 books published in a little over a decade, but I am fundamentally very lazy…” We think @sirbenfro.bsky.social might not understand the term lazy. Find out what he’s been up to lately in our new interview interviewroomone.com/james-oswald...
March 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
“If the police ever seize my laptop and look at my search history, I might be in a bit of trouble…” Find out just what Neil Broadfoot has been up to in our latest Interview.
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March 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A new #crimefiction article for this Sunday evening. We love novels & short stories, but we're a sucker for a good story in our music too. Here team member Joe offers 10 #Storytelling songs with crime at their heart. Feel free to tell us your favourite... interviewroomone.com/crime-story-...
March 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
To celebrate 100 #BookReviews, read a review via the link here & reply to this post with the name/ author you'd most like to read. Follow us/like/share this post & we’ll pick 3 winners across our channels to receive their choice. Comp. closes 31st March. interviewroomone.com/reviews/
March 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Looking for your next #crimefiction read? We’ve got over 30 author interviews, with a new interview every Monday, including @barbaranadel.bsky.social @annamazz.bsky.social @mjarlidge.bsky.social @neillancaster66.bsky.social and MANY more: you can find them all here: interviewroomone.com/interviews/
March 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
3 new reviews up today:
@callummcsorley.bsky.social
@ajaychow.bsky.social
and Claire Douglas' new releases. Check our thoughts out here: interviewroomone.com/reviews/
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Happy publication day @callummcsorley.bsky.social. The brilliant Paperboy is out now. Callum is giving us a signed copy for one winner. Read our interview & have a chance to win by sharing this & following us so we can let you know if you win Thursday 27th March interviewroomone.com/callum-mcsor...
March 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Calum McSorley’s Paperboy has been described as ‘Inventive and witty, with a nerve-shredding finale.’ Our interview covers gallows humour, skateboarding and the joys of a familiar, rat-nibbled corpse. Check it out here interviewroomone.com/callum-mcsor...
March 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
New review up! Paperboy (out Thursday) by
@callummcsorley.bsky.social, follow up to the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime book of the year 'Squeaky Clean', one of our stand out reads last year. Can this one compare? (Spoiler: yes!) Find out in our review: interviewroomone.com/books/paperb...
March 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Visited Tap Social in #oxford last week. Such a cool venue (pizza ovens ready!) .Looking forward to March 27th’s Interview Room One session with @sarahhilary.bsky.social & #mickherron + @dauntbooks.bsky.social -some tickets (£5 + booking fee) left but going fast eventbrite.co.uk/e/interview-ro…
March 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Howard Linskey’s latest book has been described as “One of the year’s standout reads.” Read our interview this week to find out why a young William Shakespeare becomes a spy / crime solver, and how Howard went about researching the book.

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March 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
day late but our March quiz is up now! Another edition of page to screen: see how you do! interviewroomone.com/quiz-time/
March 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
February may be the shortest month but there were some great #crimefiction books released we reviewed, including @barbaranadel.bsky.social @jonathanwhitelaw.bsky.social @alexandrakbenedict.bsky.social Check our reviews here… & keep following for something special soon interviewroomone.com/reviews/
February 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Out this week! If you've read
@barbaranadel.bsky.social's books you'll probably already have this on your pre-order list. If you've only watched the #bbc series #theturkishdetective you'll love the source material. Out 20th Feb, here's our review: interviewroomone.com/books/the-ea...
February 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Happy Monday (if there is such a thing). A new interview with @william1shaw.bsky.social up on the site today. He talks to us about all things writing including his forthcoming book The Red Shore. Find out more at: interviewroomone.com/william-shaw...
February 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Ahead of his new book from @transworldbooks.bsky.social @orlandomurrin.bsky.social joins us to share his #writing space. #authours - want to share yours? Read the article to see how to tell us about you & your #crimefiction cubicle or literary lair! interviewroomone.com/my-writing-spa…
February 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Out on Kindle and Audio now & released in HB on Feb 13th from @headofzeus.bsky.social - The Oligarch's Daughter from @josephfinderbooks.bsky.social Described by Linwood Barclay as 'The Firm on Steroids' - here's our review: interviewroomone.com/books/the-ol...
February 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
New week, new interview: @dominicnolan.bsky.social joins us to tell us about his book White City- @thetimes.com crime book of the year, & which @ianrankin1.bsky.social doubted would be bettered in his crime reads las year, his research methods & a LOT more. interviewroomone.com/dominic-nola...
February 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
It’s a new month, so a new #quiz ! This month we’ve got page to screen #CrimeFiction questions. See how you do! interviewroomone.com/quiz-time/
February 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This week we have Bestseller Laura Marshall talking about her Darkly Hilarious and Acutely Observed “A Good Place to Hide a Body,” as well as the joys of ‘just making it up,’ and discovering fresh fiction from the 50s and 60s. Read more here: interviewroomone.com/laura-marsha...
January 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We were lucky enough to go to the launch of
@adberginwriter.bsky.social 's 'The Wicked of the Earth' published by @northodoxpress.bsky.social
- now Nicola has written her review of this fictionalised account of the #newcastle witch trials. Find it here: interviewroomone.com/books/the-wi...
January 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM