Karen Maitland Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

Karen Maitland Biography

Like her characters in Company of Liars, Karen Maitland has spent much of her life travelling, spending her early childhood in the sunshine of Malta and later journeying to Iceland and Greenland. In her working life she has done all kinds of jobs from hospital worker to lecturer, egg packing to dance-drama. She finally started writing in 1996.

One of Maitland's jobs took her to Nigeria for eighteen months where she lived in a rural village, without running water, electricity or sanitation. She was in Nigeria when the civil war broke out.

Maitland began writing historical novels after she became fascinated by the medieval period having visited the beguinage (city of women) in Bruges, which she then used in her novel The Owl Killers. She has now written four medieval thrillers, Company of Liars, The Owl Killers, The Gallows Curse and Falcons of Fire and Ice which came out in August 2012. Maitland is hard at work on the next two books The Vanishing Witch and The Raven's Head.

As well as her own stand-only medieval thrillers, she also writes joint medieval crime novels with a group of historical authors known as the Medieval Murderers.

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