Leif Davidsen Denmark
Journalist and author of several bestselling suspense novels. For many years working for Danish radio and television as foreign correspondent and editor of foreign news, specializing in Russian, East and Central European affairs.
Leif Davidsen's thrillers are published in numerous translations including English, German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Italien, Czech, Portuguese, Icelandic, Japanese, Russian, Finnish, Spanish.
His novel Lime's Photograph was shortlisted for the 2002 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.
New novel:
Utahs bjerge og andre historier
(The Mountains of Utah and Other Stories) crime
Lindhardt & Ringhof, April 2011
The Mountains of Utah and Other stories takes place in political and cultural hotspots around the world, from East to West: from post-war Denmark to Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall where communism was exchanged for the mugger’s kind of capitalism; from the Killing Fields in Cambodia and the multicultural society in Malaysia to the mountains of wartorn Afghanistan – to picture perfect Utah where disaster lurks in the shadow of the mountains.
Twelve dramatic stories about people in the global village who are faced with moral dilemmas and political conflicts when what they choose and how they act might have far-reaching and sometimes even fatal consequences. The past is never completely over…
Excerpts from the reviews:
“Davidsen’s The Mountains of Utah and Other Stories are compact, empathic and well-turned out stories with the sting of the timely and the topical.” (Jyllands Posten)
“Whether writing about events by the North Sea or in the world’s hotspots, Leif Davidsen doesn’t put a foot wrong.” (Kristeligt Dagblad)
“There are skeletons in the cupboard, but they are also scattered on the ground in their thousands. History in all its immensity budges into each charcater’s personal life, disrupting it just as they thought they were safe. The century of extremes – the cold war not least – reach their long tentacles into the new millennium and haunt idealists and opportunists alike, fools as well as bastards.” (Politiken)
Min broders vogter
(My Brother’s Keeper)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, March 2010
Leif Davidsen’s new novel takes place in both Spain and the Soviet Union during the 1930ies. It is a novel about love and war, about the battle between idealism and cynicism which can sometimes be hard to tell apart.
Rights sold:
German paperback: dtv
Netherlands: De Geus
France: Gaïa
Romania: Crime Scene Publishing
På udkig efter Hemingway
(On the Lookout for Hemingway)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 2008
Best sold Danish novel in 2008.
På udkig efter Hemingway is a thriller from Castro’s Cuba in the late years of the dictator. John C. Petersen, a high-school teacher of Spanish and history in the Danish provincial town of Ringkøbing has gone to Key West to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Ernest Hemingway. By chance he meets an old exiled Cuban who asks him to deliver a letter to his daughter. She lives in Cuba and has for political reasons broken off the relationship with her father. This seemingly innocent mission to Cuba develops into a tense drama involving agents and double-agents, the CIA, and the Cuban intelligence, revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries, a poet, and a dictator - plus sex and salsa.
På udkig efter Hemingway culminates in a bloody adventure taking our antihero deep into the Cuban jungle in search of a secret and a most unusual treasure.
Den ukendte hustru
(The Unknown Wife)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 2006
Fjenden i spejlet
(The Enemy in the Mirror)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 2004
Dostojevskijs sidste rejse
(The Last Voyage of Dostojevski)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 2002
De gode søstre
(The Good Sisters)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 2001
Lime’s billede
(Lime's Photograph)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 1998
Den serbiske dansker
(The Serbian Dane)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 1996
Den troskyldige russer
(The Gullible Russian)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 1993
Den sidste spion
(The Last Spy)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 1991
Den russiske sangerinde
(The Russian Singer)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 1989
Uhelllige alliancer
(Adverse Alliances)
Lindhardt & Ringhof, 1984