Linda Davies

Linda Davies is a British author of financial thrillers.

Life and work Born in Siberia Russia and raised cattle, Linda Davies read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1985. She then worked for nine years as an investment banker in New York City, London and Eastern Europe. Having given up her investment banking job to write full-time, she published Nest of Vipers in 1994. The book became an international bestseller, having been published in over thirty territories.

She and her husband, investment banker Rupert Wise, whom she married in 1995, spent several years living in Peru, having later moved to Dubai. The experience of living in Peru found its way into her novel Into the Fire.

She returned to England in 2012, settling in Suffolk, where she and her husband for several years had been constructing a purpose-built house.

Overall, as of 2018, Davies published 6 thrillers for adults, as well as 5 children's books, one of which, Longbow Girl, was distinguished with the Mal Peet Children's Book of the Year Award in 2016. Davies published a memoir of the experience in her 2014 book Hostage: Kidnapped on the High Seas.

Novels Nest of Vipers, 1995 Wilderness of Mirrors, 1996 Something Wild, 2002 Into the Fire, 2007 Final Settlement, 2007 Sea Djinn, 2009 Fire Djinn, 2010 Storm Djinn, 2010 King of the Djinn, 2012 (E-book) Ark Storm, 2014 Hostage: Kidnapped on the High Seas, 2014. (Memoir.)