Karen Maitland

Karen Maitland (born 1956, in England) 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[2] by Yorkshire Art Circus; 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[3] and resides in medieval city of Lincoln not very far from Sherwood Forest[4]

Bibliography

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)

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)

Awards

  • "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

Memberships

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Karen Maitland". Hilaryjohnson.demon.co.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Karen Maitland". Fantasticfiction.co.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  3. ↑ Shirley, The (12 July 2010). "The Shirley Jackson Awards Blog: Karen Maitland Interview (with Charles Tan)". Shirleyjacksonawards.blogspot.com. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  4. 1 2 Raffel, Keith (19 February 2009). "The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland Archives – The Big Thrill". Thrillerwriters.org. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  5. ↑ Upcoming4.me (15 April 2014). "The Vanishing Witch by Karen Maitland cover art and synopsis". Upcoming4.me. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  6. ↑ Upcoming4.me (9 October 2014). "The Raven's Head by Karen Maitland cover art and synopsis". Upcoming4.me. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
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