About Me

I’m a novelist and have been doing this full-time these past few years. Before that, for about 30 years, I was a freelance writer focusing on business and finance and other boring stuff that paid the bills. By 2015, I’d had enough. I wrote two memoirs, Dear Michael, Love Dad (Hodder, 2016/17) and, with my eldest son, Michael, Out Of The Madhouse (JKP, 2018). Both of these are available on Amazon and as audios too – Dear Michael, Love Dad is read by the fab actor, Michael Simkins, and Out Of The Madhouse is read by my son Michael and myself – what a wonderful experience that was.

I spent a few years with one agent and one publisher getting nowhere very … very … very … slowly with one thriller out each year – Sweet William, Mr Todd’s Reckoning and The Scribbler – and this was incredibly frustrating. Wasted years, really. Mr Todd’s Reckoning was coming to TV as a six-part series with Paul Ritter starring in it. Sadly, Paul passed away and the production company, AbbottVision, withdrew from the project. I then spent 18 months thrashing about, trying to get with the right people. Things, eventually, slotted into place for a while although, in 2025, I have set up my own publishing business, Three Ways Press, for my police thrillers and domestic noir novels.

Shallow Graves, the first police thriller, came out in October and The Psychopath, the first domestic noir thriller, is out this month. They are the first books in two series I will be writing over the next few years. Lots going on!

Happy Days!

Iain

Iain Maitland

Friday 12 December 2025

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