REBECCA SHAW is the bestselling author of fifteen novels. Eleven of which are part of the wonderful long-running series set in the village of TURNHAM MALPAS, and four are part of a series set in a veterinary practice in the Dorset town of BARLEYBRIDGE. Qualified as a teacher of deaf children, REBECCA began her writing career after the last of her four children left home. She now lives in Dorset with her husband.