LONE THEILS

Smart suspense and multilayered characters

Adult fiction

The Pushover

Hushed Up

The Invisibles

The Witch Boy

The Blue Poet’s Wife

Fatal Crossing

Audio/Digital

Undermined

Missing

Non Fiction

DIANA

Children's Fiction

The Treasure of the Killer Fish

The Woman With No Name

The Letter From America

THE SECRET OF THE PIRATE SHIP

Rights and awards

Rights

Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Germany
Greece
Japan
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portuga
Russia
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
UK

Film rights

Nora Sand series: ReInvent Packaging, Denmark

Awards & nominations

2024 – Winner of the Krimi Messe Publicum Prize, at Horsens Crime Fiction festival
2023-24 – Listed in Krags Blå Bok, Denmark
2023 – Shortlisted for the Krimi Messe Publicum Prize, at Horsens Crime Fiction festival
2022 – Winner of the Otto B. Lindhardt Prisen
2021 – Shortlisted for the Krimi Messe Publicum Prize , at Horsens Crime Fiction festival
2021 – Nominated for the Storytel Award, crime fiction, Denmark
2021 – Nominated for the Storytel Award non -fiction, Iceland
2020 – Shortlisted for the Krimi Messe Publicum Prize, at Horsens Crime Fiction festival

Lone Theils was born in the Western part of Denmark. She spent a great deal of her childhood at the library reading fiction, and especially Tintin albums while dreaming of becoming a reporter and travelling the world. At the age of 25 she became a journalist and started working in London as a foreign correspondent for Berglinske Tidene, Politiken, Denmark’s Radio and TV2, covering events from terror attacks to peace negotiations in Northern Ireland and the death of Princess Diana.

Her debut novel, Fatal Crossing, came out in 2015. It received great critical acclaim and was sold for publication to 15 countries. In 2018 the option for the first three books in the Nora Sand series was bought for development into a tv-series.

The protagonist Nora Sand is, like Lone, a foreign correspondent in London with a love of kickboxing, cooking and listening to Billie Holiday. Nora is strong and stubborn and a hardworking clever journalist, who does not shy away from trouble – unless of course it happens in her private life.

Most of Lone’s stories are inspired by true crime, a genre that has fascinated her since she was much too young to be reading these kinds of books. And her twenty years in journalism always come in handy both when it comes to research and writing. The international success made Lone leave London and settle down in Denmark, where she now writes full time. She is also still frequently used as a commentator on British politics and society by both television and radio and she also writes for the internet magazine POV International and occasionally comments for the BBC as well.

In her spare time she does kickboxing and she swims most mornings in the ocean all year round.

In 2017 Lone was nominated for the Martha Prize, a prize given to the reader’s favourite author in Denmark and the same year she was nominated as the reader’s favourite at Krimimessen in Horsens.

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Bibliography

The Nora Sand series

2023 – The Pushover (Troskyldigheden selv), thriller
2021 – The Invisibles (De usynlige), thriller
2019 – Hushed Up (Stilleleg), thriller
2018 – The Witch Boy (Heksedrengen), thriller
2016 – The Blue Poet’s Wife (Den blå digters kone), thriller
2015 – Fatal Crossing (Pigerne fra Englandsbåden), thriller

Bibliography audio/digital

2020 – Undermined (Undergravet), crime novel (part 2, Homecoming series)
2019 – Missing (Savnet), crime novel (part 1, Homecoming series)

Bibliography non fiction

2020 – Diana (Diana), non fiction

Bibliography Children books

2021 – The Secret Detective Bureau 1, The Treasure of the Killer fish (Det hemmelige Detektivbureau 1, Draeberfiskenes skat), children detective novel
2021 – The Secret Detective Bureau 2, The Woman With No Name (Det hemmelige Detektivbureau 2, Kvinden uden navn), children detective novel
2021 – The Secret Detective Bureau 3, The Letter From America (Det hemmelige Detektivbureau 3, Brevet fra Amerika), children detective novel
2021 – The Secret Detective Bureau 4, The Secret of the Pirate Ship (Det hemmelige Detektivbureau 4, Piratskibets hemmelighed), children detective novel

Other titles
2018 – Homecoming, crime audio novel, Storytel Original
2018 – Journalistic long read for BBC’s web about the case against Peter Madsen
2017 – 87 Seconds (87 sekunder), crime novel, in collaboration with Danish Radio

2015 – Globetrotter, biography on Jens Bjerre