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Name
  
Karen Maitland


Role
  
Author

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Nominations
  
Sue Feder Historical Mystery

Books
  
Company of Liars, The Owl Killers, The Gallows Curse, The Falcons of Fire and I

Similar People
  
Susanna Gregory, Michael Jecks, Bernard Knight, C J Sansom

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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.

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Her works include The White Room published in 1996 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".

Maitland is dyslexic and resides in medieval city of Lincoln not very far from Sherwood Forest

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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 finalist
  • Memberships

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

    Karen Maitland Wikipedia