However, McLeod begins to wonder whether she can trust the friends to whom she has confided her situation one of them appears to be secretly working for the other side. Her cover now blown, McLeod takes the wounded boy to her mother's secluded cabin in the snowy Scottish highlands, where she hopes to remain safe while the boy recovers from his injuries. Special Branch agent Orla McLeod is left standing alongside nine-year-old Jamie Buchanan, while Orla's lover and the young boy's prostitute mother are brutally murdered by Tord Svenson, the violent criminal McLeod and her unit were attempting to catch. Published in 2002, No Good Deed opens with a deadly shoot-out as a police sting in Glasgow goes terribly wrong. Praising Scott's debut novel Hen's Teeth, Books ‘n’ Bytes reviewer Harriet Klausner called it 'a fabulous medical thriller' that 'deserves much reader attention.' Today she resides in Suffolk, England, and has several contemporary crime thrillers to her credit, among them the thrillers No Good Deed and Hen's Teeth and the historical 'Boudica' series of novels, set during the Roman invasion of Britain. After many sleep-deprived years, Scott finally decided to change careers, becoming a professional writer instead. Attending Glasgow University, she eventually became a veterinary surgeon and specialized in horses.

Scottish veterinarian Manda Scott was born and raised in Glasgow, where as a child she loved animals and dreamed of becoming a farmer. No Good Deed, Hodder Headline (London, England), 2001, Bantam ( New York, NY), 2002.īoudica: Dreaming the Eagle, Delacorte Press (New York, NY), 2003.īoudica II: Dreaming the Bull, Delacorte Press (New York, NY), 2004.īoudica: Dreaming the Hound, Delacorte Press (New York, NY), 2006, Delta Trade Paperbacks (New York, NY), 2007.ĭreaming the Serpent-spear, Delta Trade Paperbacks (New York, NY), 2007. Stronger than Death, Hodder Headline (London, England), 1999. Night Mares, Viking ( New York, NY), 1998. Hen's Teeth, Women's Press (London, England), 1996. Orange Prize shortlist, 1997, for Hen's Teeth. Worked as a veterinarian in Newmarket, England, late 1980s. Veterinary surgeon, equine neonatologist, anaesthetist, and fiction writer.

Hobbies and other interests: Rock climbing, running her dogs, riding. Education: Attended Glasgow University Veterinary School.

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