About Elsebeth Egholm and her books

Bestselling Danish novelist Elsebeth Egholm began her career behind the keyboards of a piano. She was a student of music as a performer at The Royal Academy of Music and at the Department of Musicology at the University of Aarhus, before she changed instrument and enrolled at the Danish School of Journalism, also based in her hometown of Aarhus. She spent a few years working for a daily newspaper, but by 1992 she was living with future husband, the late British author Philip Nicholson, in the Maltese island of Gozo, working as a freelance writer.

Eventually she began making a name for herself as the author of a string of well crafted short stories published in women's magazines in both Denmark and the other Nordic countries. Her first novel had three long time friends mourning the death of a fourth and facing a mysterious stranger. ‘The Free Women's Club' was published in 1999 to unanimous acclaim. In ‘Scirocco' (2000) and ‘Opium' (2001) she moved into the darker corners of family and marriage, and combined a fullgrown plot with an engaging dose of international suspense.

Then, in 2002, she introduced full time journalist and part time sleuth Dicte Svendsen in ‘Hidden Errors', a novel about a dead baby found in a creek in the middle of big city Aarhus. By the second and third book in the series, ‘Own Risk' (2004) and ‘Personal Damage' (2005), both author and heroine were well known and highly treasured in her homeland, with ‘Personal Damage' optioned to be a movie. ‘Next of Kin' was published in 2006, dramatically outselling the previous novels, and Elsebeth Egholm found herself published, or about to be published, in Germany, Holland, Sweden and Norway.

Currently Elsebeth Egholm divides her time between living in Aarhus, as does Dicte Svendsen, and on the Maltese island of Gozo. Her next novel is to be published in 2008, and has no title yet.

  

Novels featuring Dicte Svendsen:

  

Nærmeste pårørende, 2006 ('Next of Kin')

• Danish: Gyldendal
• German: Goldmann
• Dutch: Uitgevereij Prometheus (NAASTE FAMILIE, May, 2007)
• Swedish: B.Wahlströms
• Norwegian: Hr. Ferdinand

Personskade, 2005 (‘Personal Damage')

• Danish: Gyldendal
• German: Goldmann (BLUTZOLL, summer 2007)
• Swedish: B. Wahlströms (2007)
• Filmrights: Nordisk Film, Copenhagen

Selvrisiko, 2004 (‘Own Risk')

• Danish: Gyldendal
• German: Goldmann (DAS NÄCHSTE OPFER, 2005)
• Swedish: B. Wahlströms (SJÄLVRISK, 2006)

Skjulte fejl og mangler, 2002 ('Hidden Errors')

• Danish: Lindhardt and Ringhof
• German: Goldmann (DER TOTE KNABE, 2005)
• Swedish: B. Wahlströms (DOLDE FEL OCH BRISTER, 2005)

Elsebeth Egholm can be reached at

Lars Ringhof Agency ApS
Otto Mønstedsgade 3
DK-1571 København V
Telephone (+45) 33 33 81 88
Cell: (+45) 27 11 13 13
E-mail:lars@ringhof.dk

English language rights:

Christopher Little Literary Agency, London