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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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Acquired taste
Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian RankinMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
It’s years since I read a Rebus mystery and in that time he has aged and more or less been put out to grass as a civilian assisting a cold-case unit. The dog-eared paperback I picked up from a hotel shelf was published in 2012, so I imagine by now he is doing something along the lines of the title, if his unhealthy habits are Read more of this blog post »
Bruce’s Recent Updates
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added a status update: ‘Murder at the Bridge’, #20 in the DI Skelgill series is FREE in the Kindle Store until midnight on Monday 4th May 2026.
Just click on “or $0.00 to buy” to avoid Kindle Unlimited: USA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFNSP1N4 UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BFNSP1N4 Canada https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BFNSP1N4 Australia https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BFNSP1N4 Feel free to tell a friend and thanks for your interest. |
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| It’s years since I read a Rebus mystery and in that time he has aged and more or less been put out to grass as a civilian assisting a cold-case unit. The dog-eared paperback I picked up from a hotel shelf was published in 2012, so I imagine by now he ...more | |
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| It is hard to capture in a few words a novel that has occupied your imagination for the past few months, and Dombey and Son is no exception. I was prompted to read it when I discovered in a charity shop a wonderful 1891 antiquarian edition complete w ...more | |
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| I found this quite a page-turner for a classic (and it needed to be, at three times the length of a typical modern novel), and several of our local book group agreed. I came across the author, Wilkie Collins, in researching early crime writers, among ...more | |
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| This is a charming, light read, a bit of a ‘Girl’s Own’ story with its endearing style and ingenuous protagonist. She is Victoria Jones, a precocious Londoner who gets sacked from the typing pool for impertinence, falls for a young man who chats her ...more | |
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added a status update: FREE TODAY thru’ Wednesday 4 March 2026 in the Kindle Store, #18 in the DI Skelgill series, ‘Murder Unsolved’. Click carefully where it says “$0.00 to buy” beneath “kindleunlimited”:
USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09J2Q4B2W UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09J2Q4B2W CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09J2Q4B2W OZ: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09J2Q4B2W Thank you for your interest. |
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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 | 562 | 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.
