Manda Scott is a veterinary surgeon and writer. Born and educated in Scotland, she trained at the University of Glasgow School of Veterinary Medicine and now lives and works in Shropshire, sharing her life with her partner, Inca the lurcher and other assorted wildlife. She is known primarily as a crime writer. Her first novel, "Hen's Teeth", hailed by Fay Weldon as 'a new voice for a new world' was shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize. Her subsequent novels, "Night Mares", "Stronger than Death" and "No Good Deed", for which she was hailed as 'one of Britain's most important crime writers' by The Times, are published by Headline. "The Boudica series" are her first historical novels.