K.J. Maitland Books In Order

Publication Order of Daniel Pursglove Books

K.J. Maitland is a pen name used by Karen Maitland.

She is not only a historical novelist but she is also a teacher and a lecturer of creative writing. She has over twenty books to her name. Karen grew up in Malta, something that helped to inspire the passion that she has for history. She has traveled and worked all over the world but eventually decided to settle down in the United Kingdom.

Maitland has a doctorate in psycholinguistics. She currently resides on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.

The Drowned City is the first book in the Daniel Pursglove series by K.J. Maitland. If you are someone who really likes to read historical fiction then this just might be the series and the debut for you. It’s the perfect book to read on your own or start off a book club with.

The year is 1606, and it’s been a year to the day that some men were executed by the government for the crime of conspiring to blow up Parliament. Now a towering wave has come by and devastated the Bristol Channel. Some say that it was the vengeance of God, while others are looking to take advantage.

Meanwhile in the city of London, Daniel Pursglove is sitting in prison and he is waiting for his time to die. But Charles FitzAlan is the close adviser to King James I. He has a job in mind that if he succeeds will be able to free a man who has Daniel’s skill from the horrors of Newgate.

Bristol is actually a hotbed when it comes to Catholic spies. What place could be better for the lone person who was able to avoid arrest, Spero Pettingar, to get some allies together than in the chaos that came from a drowned city? Daniel goes on a journey there to look into FitzAlan’s lead but quickly finds that he has somehow become part of the center of a dark Jesuit conspiracy while trying to find a killer.

Will he be successful or is he going to find out that he is in way over his head? Find out by grabbing a copy of the first book in this historical fiction series from K.J. Maitland to find out!

Traitor in the Ice is the second book in the Daniel Pursglove series by K.J. Maitland. If you thought that the first book in this series was good, check this one out too and see what you think of it.

Whispers are haunting the walls, and treachery is making the shadows even darker in this historical novel that will be the perfect fit for readers who are also fans of Kate Mosse, Andrew Taylor, or C.J. Sansom.

The season is winter and the year is 1607. A man ends up getting truck down in the grounds of Battle Abbey, Sussex. Before dawn ends up breaking, it is going to be found that he is dead.

Battle is the home to the Montagues and it has caught the eye of King James, who is very paranoid. The Catholic household has long been rumored to shelter those who are loyal to the Pope, protecting them by dressing them up and disguising them as servants inside the abbey walls. The last man who was sent to expose them was silenced and this happened before his report was able to reach London.

It is not long before main character Daniel Pursglove is called for the purposes of infiltrating the battle and finding the proof of treachery. He is about to find out that when it comes to the people at the abbey, everyone has something that they are hiding. And they are hiding secrets about deeds that are way more dangerous than religious dissent.

But he also senses a lone figure in the shadows who is being hidden from the world. It turns out that the traitor Spero Pettingar was at last close at hand. The more that bodies are unearthed, the more that Daniel is determined to do what he can in order to catch the culprit. But how easy is it to unmask a killer and find out who a murderer is when no one where is who they seem? Read this book to find out! Get a copy of Traitor in the Ice to see what you think.