The Ghost of Robert Brown

A new mystery series introducing Jane Grey, a retired detective, who now as a school teacher continues to help her old partner, Gary Myers solve murder cases.  Trying to escape memories of the past year. Jane has left her dream job as a police detective and taken a position as a biology professor at the St. Anne's boarding school.  As she reports for work, she is confronted by the murder of a school teacher. Wandering across the field looking for the administration building Jane is first on the scene of the latest murder on campus.  Surprisingly, the detective now assigned to this sleepy village is her old partner and love interest, Gary Myers.

This will be the beginning of a new entertaining mystery series written by P. Wish, featuring Grey and Myers as they clean up crime on school campuses.  A preview of the second novel in the series, written as the epilogue,  also has Max on the force having relocated to Liverpool at the end of book one, and Grey, now teaching at a new school, finds a body which starts them off again on the chase for a killer. So I assume this will be the pattern this series follows.

The theme of this plot is running away from your problems.  Jane Grey is running away from a hurtful experience in her immediate past.  Some of the young boys at the Catholic preparatory school she has come to teach at are going through turbulent times as they go through puberty, have inner battles with their feelings and conflicts with others who are bullies.  But sometimes these interactions can go astray and become violent.  So running away or facing your feelings is something that faces many of the characters in this novel.

When multiple murders start happening on the schools campus, student start wondering if there is a ghost that is haunting the lake.   The principal, Mrs. Wolverhampton, is stressed because parents are calling the school to find out if their children are still safe.  Jane has easy access to the important suspects in this case, so she keeps her relationship with Gary hidden and works on the case while befriending the staff of the school and teaching the students.  In a few instances the way Jane finds out information seems a bit exaggerated, but for the most part the plot seems probable.
So waiting for the next mystery in the series to come out to find out what happens in Liverpool.