BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELSEBETH Egholm began her career behind the keys of a piano. She spent many years as a student of music at The Royal Academy of Music and at the Department of Musicology at the University of Aarhus, before she enrolled at the Danish School of Journalism also in Aarhus. Egholm spent a few years working for a daily newspaper, but by 1992 she was living with future husband, the late British author Philip Nicholson (’A.J. Quinnell’), on the Maltese island of Gozo, working as a freelance writer.
EVENTUALLY EGHOLM 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 The Free Women’s Club was published in 1999 to wide acclaim. In Scirocco and Opium she moved into the darker corners of family and marriage, combining a full bodied plot with an engaging dose of international suspense. Her standalone novels, As The Night Knows The Stars, The Red Birds and The Messenger, are psychologically suspenseful bestsellers that have topped the Danish charts. The latter made it to the top of the “Most Listened and Read Titles For All of 2024” on the streaming platform Mofibo.
ELSEBETH EGHOLM IS the author of the ten-volume crime series on reporter Dicte Svendsen. With 1 million copies sold in Denmark alone, the series is a huge success in Denmark. It was published in many territories and adapted into a three season TV-series which can be seen on, among others, Arte TV, Apple TV and Amazon Prime. Dicte has made Egholm one of Denmark’s most beloved crime authors.
IN FALL 2026, Egholm published the first volume in her expansive historical trilogy. Until the End of Time traces one family’s fate against the shifting atmosphere of 1930s Denmark.
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