Career
Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics. The Gallows" Curse was published by Penguin Books in March 2011. She also has a joint novel, The Sacred Stone, written together with medieval crime writers Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory, and Philip Gooden.
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 medieval city of Lincoln not very far from Sherwood Forest Crime Writers" Association Historical Novel Society Society of Authors International Thriller Writers.