MAXWELL’S RETIREMENT a thrilling murder mystery with plenty of twists (Schoolmaster Murder Mysteries Book 15)

Peter Maxwell can’t believe his eyes when a body is discovered during a staff team-building exercise.

Maxwell had already decided paintballing was far too violent for a man of his age, even in the interests of building team relations. But he hadn’t reckoned on murder.

The victim’s neck has been snapped.

The police soon discover the dead man was an escaped convict — serving a prison term for computer hacking.

Then Maxwell’s students start receiving disturbing texts. But the only person with enough knowledge to hack into their phones was the dead man.

In order to solve this puzzle, Maxwell must take on his nemesis: modern technology! But he can’t even turn on a computer.

Can Maxwell catch a digitally savvy killer? Or is it time to put his sleuthing skills to rest?

Maxwell’s Retirement is the 15th book in M.J. Trow’s hugely popular and bestselling series — page-turning cozy murder mysteries, full of humour and delightful characters. For fans of Faith Martin, Richard Osman, Ian Moore, Rob Rinder, Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, Janice Hallett, M.C. Beaton and Simon Brett.

Praise for Maxwell’s Retirement:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Made me laugh out loud. M.J. Trow knows how to tell a good yarn and keep me guessing to the end.’

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Brilliant read.’

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘If you haven’t met ‘Mad Max’ you have missed a treat.’

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The characters are all so well drawn and true to life — each one a little caricature of the types one meets in education all the time.’

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!