Elizabeth Bradshaw read Zoology at Royal Holloway College, University of London and went on to obtain a doctorate in wildlife ecology from Oxford University.  She has worked as an animal behaviour and welfare scientist, as an associate lecturer with the Open University, in the tourist industry and most recently as an ecological consultant specialising in bats. 

She is currently undertaking a final edit of THE DEAD PIT, her first novel, a crime thriller, as well as working on a second crime thriller, and on a children’s book in collaboration with the children’s author Victoria Eveleigh.

She lives in Somerset with her husband.