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Bruce’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bruce’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Bruce Beckham
Goodreads Author
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in Middlemarch, The United Kingdom
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John Updike, Patricia Highsmith, John Fowles, Ruth Rendell, Colin Dext
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February 2014
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Detective Inspector Skelgill (Inspector Skelgill Investigates, #1-4)
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Murder in Adland (DI Skelgill Investigates, #1)
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2012
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Murder on the Lake (DI Skelgill Investigates, #4)
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2015
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Murder in the Woods (DI Skelgill Investigates, #8)
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2017
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Murder In School (DI Skelgill Investigates, #2)
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2014
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Murder on the Edge (DI Skelgill Investigates, #3)
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2014
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Murder at the Flood (Inspector Skelgill Investigates, #9)
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The DI Skelgill Series #5-7
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Murder by Magic (DI Skelgill Investigates, #5)
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2015
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Murder at the Wake (DI Skelgill Investigates, #7)
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2016
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History in the making
I’ve always thought what a gruesome and fabulous title is ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (and the name Edgar Allan Poe somewhat haunting) and I’ve carried a vague and distant memory of seeing it televised, without being able to recall any detail.
I’m presently toiling through a 724-page doorstopper called ‘The Life of Crime’ by Martin Edwards – basically an encyclopaedia of crime fiction. In here, the Read more of this blog post »
I’m presently toiling through a 724-page doorstopper called ‘The Life of Crime’ by Martin Edwards – basically an encyclopaedia of crime fiction. In here, the Read more of this blog post »
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I think this was my third reading of The Mystery of the Blue Train and, as ever with such Christie revisitations (there being 66 works), I had no recall whatsoever of the perpetrator of the crime.This made it all the more frustrating, as I tried unsu ...more "
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Bruce Beckham
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The new DI Skelgill mystery, MURDER ON THE MENU is now in Kindle Stores worldwide. As always, it is included with Kindle Unlimited. For a peek at the blurb, here are the links: USA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F66F13W3 UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F66F13W3 CA https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F66F13W3 OZ https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0F66F13W3 Thank you for your support and wishing you a Happy 2026! |
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I’ve always thought what a gruesome and fabulous title is ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (and the name Edgar Allan Poe somewhat haunting) and I’ve carried a vague and distant memory of seeing it televised, without being able to recall any detail. I’m pre ...more |
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A pleasant read, well written – in fact I’d put Josephine Tey ahead of Agatha Christie from the point of view of penmanship – although she indulges a tendency to digress, which is not one of Christie’s weaknesses. This novel was published in 1948 and ...more |
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A pleasant read, well written – in fact I’d put Josephine Tey ahead of Agatha Christie from the point of view of penmanship – although she indulges a tendency to digress, which is not one of Christie’s weaknesses. This novel was published in 1948 and ...more |
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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
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“a philosophy borrowed from the long-suffering Scots, that there is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes. ”
― Murder in the Mind
― Murder in the Mind
“I began to appreciate that the job of an amateur sleuth was not quite so straightforward as they make out in the whodunits.”
― Murder Mystery Collection
― Murder Mystery Collection
Topics Mentioning This Author
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English Mysteries...:
October 2014
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29 | 100 | Sep 06, 2014 04:30PM | |
| Cozy Mystery Corner : 2000 Plus Challenge - Report Progress Here | 226 | 197 | Jun 04, 2016 04:16AM | |
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Bookworm Bitches :
2016: Classics Scavenger Hunt
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34 | 301 | Sep 20, 2016 08:21PM | |
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Cozy Mysteries :
Title and Author game, Round 3
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13653 | 560 | Apr 03, 2017 09:53AM | |
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Game Night:
C-3PO - COMPLETE!
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604 | 64 | May 28, 2017 01:55PM | |
| A Million More Pages: Pacific Ocean Challenge - Ring of Fire | 50 | 144 | Jun 02, 2017 11:18PM | |
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Game Night:
DONE - Team 19: Time Sleuths - W
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166 | 44 | Jun 16, 2017 11:00PM | |
| A Million More Pages: Sea Creatures | 52 | 93 | Jul 02, 2017 10:03AM |
“this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefooted Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write.)”
― The Reivers
― The Reivers
“I don’t very much believe in blood,” said Samuel. “I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb.” “You can’t make a race horse of a pig.” “No,” said Samuel, “but you can make a very fast pig.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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Thank you Bruce for becoming a friend on Goodreads.
