Her first ten novels are police procedurals, set in Glasgow, featuring DI Colin Anderson and DS Freddie Costello.

A graduate of the British School of Osteopathy, she runs a large osteopath centre in West Scotland, treating animals and humans, and writes in her spare time.

Critic Cathi Unsworth in The Guardian opined that Ramsay's series "excels in sense of place, realism, plotting and caustic humour", describing it as "Bleak, black and brilliant".

[2] Ramsay was the subject of a 2007 BBC documentary film,[1] and appeared on STV show The Hour in 2010.

[3] Note that Tambourine Girl was the working title of Singing to the Dead, not a separate book.