Writing as KJ Maitland and Karen Maitland 

JACOBEAN THRILLERS

Writing as K J Maitland, her new Jacobean crime thriller quartet, published by Headline, follows Daniel Pursglove as he becomes embroiled in the dark world of spies, murder and treason, following the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The first in the series, The Drowned City, takes place amidst the devastation of the Bristol channel tsunami of 1606. And the second, Traitor in the Ice, is set in 1607 in Battle Abbey, Sussex. The third is Rivers of Treason, in which Daniel finds himself fleeing the length of England pursued by a brutal killer, and the quartet concludes with A Plague of Serpents, in which Daniel is tasked by royal command with one final mission: he must infiltrate the Serpents – a secret group plotting to kill the King – or risk his own execution.  

MEDIEVAL THRILLERS

Karen Maitland, she has written eight medieval thrillers published by Penguin and Headline UK, and Random House USA. Company of Liars, The Owl Killers, The Gallows Curse, The Vanishing Witch, The Raven’s Head, The Plague Charmer, and A Gathering of Ghosts are set in Medieval England and France, while Falcons of Fire & Ice is set during the Inquisition in Portugal and the Reformation in Iceland.

DIGITAL SHORTS

She has also written digital short stories – Liars and Thieves, and two digital nonfiction – The Dangerous Art of Alchemy and Wicked Children: Murderous Tales from History.

MEDIEVAL MURDERERS

Karen is also one of six historical crime writers along with Philip Gooden, Susannah Gregory, Michael Jecks, Bernard Knight and Ian Morson who are together known as the Medieval Murderers. Karen has written five historical crime novels with the Medieval Murderers – The Sacred Stone, Hill of Bones, The First Murder, The False Virgin and The Deadliest Sin– all published by Simon & Schuster.

THE AUTHOR

She has lived and work in many parts of the world, but has now settled Devon, close to Dartmoor where Agatha Christie had her writing retreat and Sir Arthur Colon Doyle wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of Karen’s favourite childhood books.

She blogs as one of The History Girls.