App Store

Google Play

image.devices-Singapore 2x

Step into an infinite world of stories

Listen and read

M.J. Trow

Maxwell's back, as murder comes to sleepy Leighford. Are the two things connected? Well, yes and no. Teenage girls are being picked up on the seafront and two of them are found dead. DI Jacquie Carpenter-Maxwell has barely set foot on her old patch before she is up to her jet-lagged neck in somebody else's tragedy. The prime suspect is Bernard Ryan, Deputy Head at Leighford High, and Mad Max is soon riding to the rescue on White Surrey. But can he pedal fast enough before another girl meets the wrong man, at the wrong time, in the wrong place?

Peter Wickham

Soundings

Peter Maxwell

Maxwell's Return

The end of civilisation, as Peter Maxwell knows it, is just around the corner. It comes in the form of Fiona Braymarr, the new superhead. She is a new broom, and she sweeps good people along the way. And the odd thing about her? She has no past. And within days of her arrival, two local women have no future; one is found dead in a car showroom, the other is stabbed at the foot of her own stairs. Two murders so closely linked in time and space must surely be connected. Maxwell's wife, DI Jacquie Carpenter-Maxwell, thinks so. So does her boss, DCI Henry Hall. And Maxwell? Well, it's hard to keep a good amateur sleuth down.

Maxwell's Academy

Maxwell is anticipating a quiet summer, with perhaps some light gardening if necessary - and as long as plants don't grow over the door and trap them inside, it won't be. But, as often is the case, Mrs Troubridge happens and a day out for her and her special friend, Mrs Getty, takes Maxwell and Nolan to Haledown House and into a web of intrigue and death. Maxwell's summer is nothing like he planned. As resident conversationalist at a stately home, with riding lessons for Nolan and free dinners when she wants them for Jacquie, Mad Max Maxwell could be forgiven for expecting an easy time of it - with a fat cheque thrown in. But murders soon cross his path - almost literally - and with his own life in danger, will he make it to the dreaded A Level Results Day?

Maxwell's Summer

When asked about when it all began, Peter Maxwell would always say that it was at breakfast one day, when his son said, 'It says in the news that bats are giving people colds'. At that point, that was all anyone thought. Nolan was worried about the Count and Bismarck but of course, as everyone would soon know, it was much more than that. What was less obvious was that the pandemic would also restart a killing spree. Old memories rising to the surface, old enmities and slights recalled and suddenly, in masked and socially distanced Leighford, someone is prowling with a hammer raised to create mayhem. The police are run off their feet and tragedy stalks the land, closer to home than anyone thought possible. In a world where death is striking everywhere, how can anyone hope to bring a murderer to book?