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An absolutely gripping cozy murder mystery with a touch of wry English humour.
‘Cleverly conceived and amusingly executed.’TheSunday Times
Meet Peter Maxwell: film buff, golden-hearted cynic, bow-tied eccentric teacher . . . and reluctant amateur sleuth.
When Fiona Braymarr, the no-nonsense new head of Leighford High, starts swinging the axe on staff jobs, Maxwell decides to dig into her shadowy past. To his shock, he finds she doesn’t seem to have one.
Then two local women meet grisly ends — one plunging from a balcony, the other stabbed at the foot of her stairs.
Maxwell takes the murders personally when he discovers both victims’ children are students at his beloved school.
With danger closing in and his own life on the line, Maxwell must untangle the web of lies and secrets to catch a killer — and save the school he loves.
If you love Faith Martin, Richard Osman, Richard Coles, Fiona Leitch, Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, Simon Brett, Janice Hallett, M.C. Beaton or Agatha Christie, prepare to be hooked by this character-driven thrilling mystery!
Praise for Maxwell’s Academy:
⭐⭐���⭐⭐ ‘Absolutely loved this book.’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Funny, unputdownable, sometimes covering serious issues, not frivolously but with a light hand which is all the more telling. I recommend this series wholeheartedly.��
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Brilliant series, very funny with a good story.’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I laugh out loud with the character observations and adore The Count and his take on life.’
Meet Peter Maxwell
Peter Maxwell is a history teacher at Leighford High School. He’s loved by his students and known as ‘Mad Max’ to his friends because of his love of quoting movies. His eccentricities make him a well-known figure in the small seaside town, cycling everywhere on his bike called White Surrey — after Richard III’s horse. When not teaching history, he is building a diorama of the Charge of the Light Brigade in his attic and talking to his cat, Count Metternich, his sounding board and boss, and solves crimes the police are unable to crack.
The Setting
Leighford is a small seaside town on the South Coast. Its population trebles in the summer as tourists flock to holiday there. Unfortunately for Peter Maxwell some of these characters will end up dead!
Genre: Mystery
‘Cleverly conceived and amusingly executed.’TheSunday Times
Meet Peter Maxwell: film buff, golden-hearted cynic, bow-tied eccentric teacher . . . and reluctant amateur sleuth.
When Fiona Braymarr, the no-nonsense new head of Leighford High, starts swinging the axe on staff jobs, Maxwell decides to dig into her shadowy past. To his shock, he finds she doesn’t seem to have one.
Then two local women meet grisly ends — one plunging from a balcony, the other stabbed at the foot of her stairs.
Maxwell takes the murders personally when he discovers both victims’ children are students at his beloved school.
With danger closing in and his own life on the line, Maxwell must untangle the web of lies and secrets to catch a killer — and save the school he loves.
If you love Faith Martin, Richard Osman, Richard Coles, Fiona Leitch, Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, Simon Brett, Janice Hallett, M.C. Beaton or Agatha Christie, prepare to be hooked by this character-driven thrilling mystery!
Praise for Maxwell’s Academy:
⭐⭐���⭐⭐ ‘Absolutely loved this book.’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Funny, unputdownable, sometimes covering serious issues, not frivolously but with a light hand which is all the more telling. I recommend this series wholeheartedly.��
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Brilliant series, very funny with a good story.’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I laugh out loud with the character observations and adore The Count and his take on life.’
Meet Peter Maxwell
Peter Maxwell is a history teacher at Leighford High School. He’s loved by his students and known as ‘Mad Max’ to his friends because of his love of quoting movies. His eccentricities make him a well-known figure in the small seaside town, cycling everywhere on his bike called White Surrey — after Richard III’s horse. When not teaching history, he is building a diorama of the Charge of the Light Brigade in his attic and talking to his cat, Count Metternich, his sounding board and boss, and solves crimes the police are unable to crack.
The Setting
Leighford is a small seaside town on the South Coast. Its population trebles in the summer as tourists flock to holiday there. Unfortunately for Peter Maxwell some of these characters will end up dead!
Genre: Mystery
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