Karen Maitland

Abstract is: Karen Maitland (born 1956) is a British author of medieval thriller fiction. Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics. Her works include published in 1996 by ; Company of Liars published in 2008 by Delacorte Press; and , published in 2009 by Michael Joseph. 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, , Susanna Gregory, and . 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 Lincoln, not very far from Sherwood Forest.