The Interview: An outstanding locked-room thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat

C. M. Ewan

Feb 2022 · Pan Macmillan

About this eBook

The Interview is a gripping locked-room thriller from C. M. Ewan, the acclaimed author of A Window Breaks and the half-a-million-copy bestseller Safe House.

It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday.

You have been called to an interview for your dream job.

In a stunning office thirteen floors above the city below, you are all alone with the man interviewing you.

Everyone else has gone home for the weekend.

The interview gets more and more disturbing.

You’re feeling scared.

Your only way out is to answer a seemingly impossible question.

If you can’t . . . what happens next?


What authors are saying . . .

‘C.M. Ewan never once drops the pace in this heart-pounding rollercoaster of a thriller that had me up all night’ - Clare Mackintosh, author of Hostage

‘A brilliant hook, a breakneck game of cat and mouse, and twists galore’ - Tim Weaver, author of The Shadow at the Door

‘A fast-paced twisty read that races along like an action movie’ - Sarah Pinborough, author of Insomnia

‘I can’t stop thinking about The Interview. I loved it’ - Sarah Hilary, author of Fragile

‘I couldn’t put The Interview down. Totally brilliant’ - B A Paris, author of The Therapist

‘A terrifying, heart-stopping ride’ - Sharon Bolton, author of The Split

‘So tense and twisty. An absolute nail-biter of a novel!’ - Gilly Macmillan, author of The Long Weekend

What readers are saying . . .

‘Oh boy did I enjoy this book! The definition of a keep you up all night, read in one sitting thriller’

‘I read this beauty in a day, had so much else to do but just couldn't put it down’

‘Wow, this book blew me away! I was hooked immediately and found the concept, both exciting and highly original’

‘YOU GUYS! If you haven't read this book, DO IT NOW!’

Ratings and reviews

absolutely rubbish too long winded and frustratingly boring could not finish it

A good read even if a little far-fetched.

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About the author

C. M. Ewan is a pseudonym for Chris Ewan, the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of many mystery and thriller novels. Chris’s first standalone thriller, Safe House, was a bestseller in the UK and was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. He is also the author of the thrillers Dead Line, Dark Tides, Long Time Lost and A Window Breaks as well as The Good Thief’s Guide series of mystery novels. The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam won the Long Barn Books First Novel Award and has been published in thirteen countries. Chris lives with his wife and their two children in Somerset, where he writes full-time.