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Karen Maitland Books in Order

Karen Maitland has written 10 books, published between 1996 and 2018. The first book is The White Room (1996) and the newest is A Gathering of Ghosts / The Blood Well (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1996–2018
Pages on record
3,744 in 8 of 10 books
Reading time
62–94 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,744 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

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Karen Maitland writes medieval thrillers. Ten titles make up the catalogue: The White Room came from Yorkshire Art Circus in 1996, Company of Liars from Delacorte Press in 2008, The Owl Killers from Michael Joseph in 2009, and The Gallows Curse from Penguin Books in March 2011, with The Falcons of Fire and Ice (2012), The Vanishing Witch (2014), The Raven's Head (2015) and The Plague Charmer (2016) after them. The Black Death, travellers, gallows and fortune-telling by runes supply the material. Maitland holds an honours degree in human communication and a doctorate in psycholinguistics, and has co-written titles in the Medieval Murderers series with Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory and Philip Gooden.

How many Karen Maitland books are there?

Karen Maitland has 10 books, released between 1996 and 2018.

Karen Maitland Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Karen Maitland books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The White Room by Karen Maitland (1996)
  2. Cover of Company of Liars by Karen Maitland (2008)
  3. Cover of The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland (2009)
  4. Cover of The Gallows Curse by Karen Maitland (2011)
  5. Cover of The Falcons of Fire and Ice by Karen Maitland (2012)
  6. Cover of The Vanishing Witch by Karen Maitland (2014)
  7. Cover of The Raven's Head by Karen Maitland (2015)
  8. Cover of The Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland (2016)
  1. 1
    The White Room1996 · 196 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996196
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  2. 2
    Company of Liars2008 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008480
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  3. 3
    The Owl Killers2009 · 528 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009528
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  4. 4
    The Gallows Curse2011 · 584 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011584
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  5. 5
    The Falcons of Fire and Ice2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  6. 6
    The Vanishing Witch2014 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014480
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  7. 7
    The Raven's Head2015 · 500 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015500
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  8. 8
    Wicked Children: Murderous Tales from History2016 · confirmed 2/4
    2016–
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  9. 9
    The Plague Charmer2016 · 576 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016576
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  10. 10
    A Gathering of Ghosts / The Blood Well2018 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018400
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Karen Maitland books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

10 books

10 Karen Maitland titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Karen Maitland books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 10 Karen Maitland books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Karen Maitland

Start with The White Room (1996), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Karen Maitland book?

A Gathering of Ghosts / The Blood Well (2018) is the newest Karen Maitland book released so far.

Is there a new Karen Maitland book coming?

No next Karen Maitland book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Karen Maitland at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Karen Maitland title on record dates from 2018, 8 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Karen Maitland books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,744 pages across the 8 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 490 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Karen Maitland books, 7 of 10, were published in the 2010s.

What the Karen Maitland books are about

7 of the 10 Karen Maitland books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: great britain is tagged on 4 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.