Caro Ramsay was born and educated in Glasgow. Now in her late thirties, she lives in a village on the West Coast of Scotland with an odd selection of stray dogs including Emily, the demented pit bull terrier. She is an osteopath, acupuncturist, erstwhile marathon runner who devotes much of her time to the complementary treatment of injured wildlife at a local rescue centre. She can often be found ‘fox whispering’, treating badgers with amnesia and arguing with mute swans.

She has been writing stories since she was five years old, developing a keen interest in crime fiction when leaving university and her passion for the genre has stayed with her to this day. Caro’s latest novel Out of the Dark, the third instalment in the DCI Christine Caplan Thriller series, was published in hardback in August 2024.