Born in Chichester in 1948, Shelagh Mazey now lives with her husband in a thatched cottage in Hardington Moor, Somerset. She has two children, two stepchildren and three grandchildren. Shelagh has been retired for six years and, in that time, has published two other books, Dawn to Deadly Nightshade (Matador, 2013) and Brandy Row (Matador, 2012).