Karen Maitland (born 1956) is a British author of

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. Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics. Her works include ''

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'' published in 1996 by Yorkshire Art Circus; '' Company of Liars'' published in 2008 by

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; and '' The Owl Killers'', published in 2009 by Michael Joseph. '' The Gallows' Curse'' was published by

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, 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". Maitland is dyslexic and resides in the medieval city of

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, not very far from

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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) * ''The Raven's Head'' (2015) * ''The Plague Charmer'' (2016) * ''A Gathering of Ghosts'' (2018) Medieval Murderers * ''The Sacred Stone'' (2010)
(Written with

Bernard Knight Bernard Henry Knight (born 3 May 1931) is a British forensic pathologist and writer. He became a Home Office pathologist in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980. Early life ...

, 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. * "Company of Liars" was chosen as a Waterstone Book-of-the-Year * "The Owl Killers" was a 2009

Shirley Jackson Award The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented a ...

finalist

Memberships

* Crime Writers' Association *

Historical Novel Society The Historical Novel Society (HNS) is a nonprofit international literary society devoted to promotion of and advocacy for the genre of historical fiction. Definition of historical fiction There are varying definitions as to what types of literature ...

Society of Authors The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors. , it represents over 12,000 members and ass ...

International Thriller Writers International Thriller Writers (ITW), was founded October 9, 2004, at Bouchercon XXXV, the "World Mystery and Suspense Conference", in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Six months later, some 150 authors with more than one billion books sold worldwide h ...

References

External links

Maitland's official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maitland, Karen 1956 births Living people English horror writers 21st-century English novelists English crime fiction writers English historical novelists Writers of historical mysteries Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period