Elsebeth Egholm (born 17 September 1960) is a Danish journalist and best-selling author who writes mainly crime fiction novels.
[3] On the Maltese island of Gozo, she met her future husband, British thriller author Philip Nicholson, with whom she lived until his death in 2005.
Her first major success was De frie kvinders klub (The Free Women's Club) in 1999, followed by Scirocco and Mig og min ø (Me and My Island) in 2000 and Opium in 2001, addressing the problems of marriage in a background of international intrigue.
In 2018 Egholm was awarded the Harald Mogensen Prize by the Danish Criminal Academy (Det danske Kriminalakademi, DKA) for her novel I always find you.
[4] The 10-episode television series Those Who Kill (2012), first broadcast in Denmark as Dem som dræber (2011), tells how police detective Katrina Ries Jensen investigates several gruesome murders with strange psychological overtones.