This year, Lowdham is celebrating the 20th year of its wonderful Book Festival and I am delighted to say they have invited me to be one of their guest speakers. I have been a guest of the Lowdham festival several times, since my first novel, ‘Company of Liars’, was published and I am thrilled to be returning again to talk about my latest medieval thriller, ‘A Gathering of Ghosts.’

Karen recently visited Audible to talk about THE PLAGUE CHARMER. Listen in here!

‘Sorry I’m late,’ a family member said, rushing breathlessly into the train station late the other night. ‘I was held up by a wallaby on the road.’

We may think that as a society we have outgrown beliefs in evil spirits and lucky amulets, but in fact most of us are still practising some of the superstitions of our medieval ancestors, without even knowing it.