Kate Foster (writer)

Kate Foster (born 1974 or 1975) is a Scottish writer. She was a journalist for 25 years before publishing her first novel at the age of 48.

Foster won the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect award in 2020 (when the festival took place online). Her first novel, The Maiden, won her the 2023 Scottish Crime Debut of the Year and was longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction. Foster describes it as "a feminist retelling of a 17th century Edinburgh murder", and it concerns the murder of Lord James Forrester by Lady Christian Nimmo in Corstorphine in 1679.

Her second novel, The King's Witches, was included by The Herald in "the 10 best new historical fictions" in May 2024. It is set in the context of Anne of Denmark's betrothal to James VI and the North Berwick witch trials of 1590.

In January 2024 the publisher Mantle signed a deal for The King's Witches and Foster's next two novels, to be published in 2025 and 2026. It was reported that the 2025 title was to be The Reawakening, but Foster said in June 2024 that it will be The Mourning Necklace. It will tell the story of Maggie Dickson, known as "hauf-hingit Maggie", who survived a botched execution by hanging in 1724.

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