She admitted that it will not be a new adventure of her protagonist Jem Flockhart, but "something completely different. I’m a bit worried no one will like it."
The publication date of 'The Caithness Poltergeist' is planned for October 23th, 2025. We wait with bated breath.
This post will be updated if more news becomes available. Therefore, visit this post regularly.
[Update December 16th, 2024] Elaine Thomson posted a message that she had signed a four-book deal for four ghost stories.
[Update December 23rd, 2024] The description of
Caithness, October 1871.[Update January 3rd, 2025] The title of Elaine Thomson's next mystery seems to have been changed to 'Hawthorn: A Scottish Ghost Story'. See here.
The Ordnance Survey are charting Scotland's most remote north-easterly county, a bleak landscape of endless moorland and lonely crofts. When a strange vision leads cartographer Robert Sutherland out onto the moor one night, an accident leaves him inches from death. He is taken to Leask House, to recuperate under the care of Mrs Sinclair and her beautiful daughter Isabel.
At first, Robert thinks the dreadful visions that plague him at Leask House are the result of the laudanum he has been prescribed. But as events take ever stranger and more terrifying turns, Robert begins to wonder whether his presence at Leask House is really a coincidence at all.
Someone - or something - has summoned him here.
And they don't intend for him to leave.
It's a bit of a non-title and 'Laesk House' would have been a much better one. Besides, it would have had a perfect fit with most of the other titles.
[Update February 4th, 2025] More news about the upcoming series of books has been revealed: Hawthorn is the first in a planned quartet of novels, each set in a different part of Scotland at the four 'turning points' of the year: Samhain (or Halloween), the spring equinox, midsummer and midwinter.
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