
"The White Room", was short listed for The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.(Written with Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory and Philip Gooden) Maitland is dyslexic and resides in the medieval city of Lincoln, not very far from Sherwood Forest. EMBARK ON A TURBULENT JOURNEY THROUGH A RAVAGED COUNTRYSIDE.
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". Buy a cheap copy of Company of Liars book by Karen Maitland. 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. These nine are not just travelers they have stories to tell and secrets to hide. The Gallows' Curse was published by Penguin Books in March 2011. Review: Company of Liars, Karen Maitland Nine travelers find themselves banding together, seeking escape from the Black Death that has just arrived in England for the first time. 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 Company of Liars, by Karen Maitland, blends elements of The Decameron, The Masque of The Red Death, with And Then There Were None, and a little bit of a darker Canterbury Tales, for a story of friendship, secrets, and betrayal in plague-ridden England.

Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics. Karen Maitland (born 1956) is a British author of medieval thriller fiction.
