Sally Abbott is a British screenwriter, playwright and former theatre producer, best known for the BBC1 crime drama The Coroner, which ran for two series.
She went on to write for all four of the BBC's popular continuing dramas: Doctors, EastEnders, Casualty and its spinoff, Holby City.
It starred Claire Goose as Jane Kennedy, a coroner based in a fictional South Devon coastal town.
The series would have self-contained stories with drama and humour; a formula successfully used in Father Brown from the same production team.
The characters, Jane and Davey, were based on Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Adam's Rib with the unresolved sexual tension between them.