Maxine Benson Mystery: A Murder for Max (Paperback)

from ElizaJane

This is a book from Orca Books' Rapid Reads collection. These books are intended for adult literacy and ESL. Reluctant teen readers will also enjoy them if they don't mind books with adults as the main characters. I've read several of these now and some are better than others but it is hard to wr...

from JalenV

A Murder For Max, which I received through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program, is the first book in a proposed mystery series within a 'Rapid Reads' series. I learned about 'high interest, low vocabulary' books for reluctant or not-very-literate readers when I was in library school 40 years...

from lewilliams

Maxine( Max) Benson, Chief of police in the small town of Port Ainslie in Canada has a murder to solve. It's the first one this small community has experienced. She has a number of suspects to choose from. Will she be able to solve the crime before the Ontario Provincial Police are called in to d...

from bah195

At 110 pages John Lawrence Reynolds book A Murder For Max is a very fast read with interesting characters and a story that grabs you from the beginning. This mystery will appeal to cozy readers. A Murder For Max is the first book in the Maxine Benson mystery series that's set in the resort town o...

from johntgriffin

This is a Rapid Read book. I guess that in the way back days this would be called a short story. Even as a quick read John Lawrence Reynolds did a good job with the plot and the characters involved. I do wish there was more time to enhance the members of the community for they sounded like they c...