Karen Maitland

Karen Maitland (born 1956) is a British author of medieval thriller fiction. Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics.^[1]

Her works include The White Room published in 1996 by Yorkshire Art Circus;^[2] Company of Liars published in 2008 by Delacorte Press; and The Owl Killers, published in 2009 by Michael Joseph. The Gallows' Curse was published by Penguin Books in March 2011.

She has co-written several titles in the Medieval Murderers series with medieval crime writers including Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory, and Philip Gooden. She has worked as a writer and editor on a number of cross-cultural books including "Poems of Cultural Diversity" and "Cinders in the Wind".^[1] Maitland is dyslexic and resides in the medieval city of Lincoln, not very far from Sherwood Forest.^[3][4]

Stand alone novels

• The White Room (1996)
• Company of Liars (2008)
• The Owl Killers (2009)
• The Gallows Curse (2011)
• The Falcons of Fire and Ice (2012)
• The Vanishing Witch (2014)^[5]
• The Raven's Head (2015)^[6]
• The Plague Charmer (2016)
• A Gathering of Ghosts (2018)

Medieval Murderers

• The Sacred Stone (2010)
  (Written with Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory and Philip Gooden)
• Hill of Bones (2011)
• The False Virgin (2013)
• The Deadliest Sin (2014)

• "The White Room", was short listed for The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.^[1]
• "Company of Liars" was chosen as a Waterstone Book-of-the-Year^[4]
• "The Owl Killers" was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist

• Crime Writers' Association
• Historical Novel Society
• Society of Authors
• International Thriller Writers

• Maitland's official website