The novel “A Very Private Haunting” by Sharon Bidwell was published for the first time in 2018.

Arthur Penrose has returned to the village of Glencross many years after leaving it following his grandfather’s death. He’s now the last of his family and the heir to the mansion inhabited for various Penrose generations. Arthur doesn’t intend to live there, also because the chills he feels are not only due to the cold but also to strange events. In the village, he’s seen as a foreigner, a situation that adds to the strange atmosphere that troubles some local teenagers who are prevented from leaving. Arthur ends up calling his father’s old colleague in the army, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart.

The search for a strange creature seems to have taken Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart’s last energies, and it’s time for him to take a vacation. That’s a situation he struggles to deal with and Arthur Penrose’s call seems like the right opportunity to go somewhere else for a while without falling into boredom. When Anne Travers finds out about his plans, she says she’s interested in participating in that investigation.