Karen Maitland

Author of historical thrillers including Company of Liars and The Drowned City

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My Books

  • Rivers of Treason (2023)
  • Traitor in the Ice (2022)
  • The Drowned City (2021)
  • A Gathering of Ghosts (2018)
  • The Plague Charmer (2017)
  • The Raven’s Head (2015)
  • The Vanishing Witch (2014)
  • Liars and Thieves (A Company of Liars short story) (2014)
  • Falcons of Fire & Ice (2012)
  • The Gallows Curse (2012)
  • The Owl Killers (2009)
  • Company of Liars (2008)
  • The Deadliest Sin (2014)
  • The False Virgin (2014)
  • The First Murder (2012)
  • Hill of Bones (2012)
  • The Sacred Stone (2011)

Book details

Publisher: Headline
Publication date: April 13, 2023
ISBN: 9781472275509

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Rivers of Treason

‘What a wonderful storyteller Maitland is’ THE TIMES

DANIEL PURSGLOVE BOOK THREE


From the stark Yorkshire landscape to the dark underbelly of Jacobean London, Daniel Pursglove’s new mission sees him fall prey to a ruthless copycat killer…

London, 1607. As dawn breaks, Daniel Pursglove rides north, away from the watchful eye of the King and his spies.

He returns, disguised, to his childhood home in Yorkshire – with his own score to settle. The locals have little reason to trust a prying stranger, and those who remember Daniel do so with contempt.

When a body is found with rope burns about the neck, Daniel falls under suspicion. On the run, across the country, he is pursued by a ruthless killer whose victims all share the same gallows mark. Are these the crimes of someone with a cruel personal vendetta – or has Daniel become embroiled in a bigger, and far more sinister, conspiracy?

A new river of treason is rising, flowing from the fields of Yorkshire right to the heart of the King’s court . . .

PRAISE FOR THE DANIEL PURSGLOVE SERIES

‘Dark and enthralling’ ANDREW TAYLOR

‘This gripping thriller shows what a wonderful storyteller Maitland is’ THE TIMES

‘Colourful and compelling’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Full of tension and danger… powerfully atmospheric’ JENNIFER SAINT

‘Goes right to the heart of the Jacobean court’ TRACY BORMAN

‘Spies, thieves, murderers and King James I? Brilliant’ CONN IGGULDEN

‘There are few authors who can bring the past to life so compellingly… Brilliant writing and more importantly, riveting reading’ SIMON SCARROW

‘A beautifully crafted thriller… Breathtaking and bone-chilling’ MANDA SCOTT

‘Maitland is a superlative historical novelist’ REBECCA MASCULL

‘Devilishly good’ DAILY MAIL

‘The intrigues of Jacobean court politics simmer beneath the surface in this gripping and masterful crime novel’ KATHERINE CLEMENTS

‘Beautifully written with a dark heart, Maitland knows how to pull you deep into the early Jacobean period’ RHIANNON WARD

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