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Bruce Beckham

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Mystery, Suspense, Crime

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BRUCE BECKHAM brings a lifelong love of the outdoors to the contemporary crime novel. An award-winning, Amazon best-selling writer and member of the UK Society of Authors, he pens fiendish plots, vivid wild scenes and compelling dramas.

His series 'Detective Inspector Skelgill Investigates' now extends to 24 standalone murder mysteries and 8 boxsets, and sells across five continents, from Japan and India to Brazil and the United States of America. Over one million copies have been downloaded worldwide.

Murder at Blind Beck (#25) was released in May 2025 and can be ordered at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK2XQ46Z

You are welcome to contact Bruce directly through the Goodreads message system or via his publisher, at this address: lucius-ebooks@l ...more

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	Detective Inspector Skelgill (Inspector Skelgill Investigates, #1-4) 4.36 avg rating — 2,025 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder in Adland (DI Skelgill Investigates, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 2,044 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder on the Lake (DI Skelgill Investigates, #4) 3.97 avg rating — 1,534 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder in the Woods (DI Skelgill Investigates, #8) 4.09 avg rating — 1,345 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder In School (DI Skelgill Investigates, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 1,292 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder on the Edge (DI Skelgill Investigates, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 1,081 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The DI Skelgill Series #5-7 4.43 avg rating — 997 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at the Flood (Inspector Skelgill Investigates, #9) 4.12 avg rating — 1,047 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder by Magic (DI Skelgill Investigates, #5) 4.25 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at the Wake (DI Skelgill Investigates, #7) 4.15 avg rating — 888 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah

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This was the latest choice of our Edinburgh street book group. It is set largely in our city and the villages to the west, which was viewed as an aspect of the novel’s appeal. The characters are mainly members of the expat Sierra Leonean community and connected to a rather dubious organisation, the Lion Mountain Church.

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Trent's Last Case (Philip Trent, #1)

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A Cumberland Valley: A History of the Parish of Lorton

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Bruce Beckham wrote a new blog post More Who, Less Dunit The Search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah My rating: 2 of 5 stars This was the latest choice of our Edinburgh street book group. It is set largely Read more of this blog post »
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Bruce Beckham rated a book it was ok The Search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This was the latest choice of our Edinburgh street book group. It is set largely in our city and the villages to the west, which was viewed as an aspect of the novel’s appeal. The characters are mainly members of the expat Sierra Leonean community an ...more
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Bruce Beckham added a status update: Free today and tomorrow in the Kindle Store (3rd & 4th September, 2026), #1 in the DI Skelgill series, 'Murder in Adland' - in case you would like to try a copy (and thanks if you already have!): US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009T93NO8 UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009T93NO8 CA https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B009T93NO8 AU https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B009T93NO8
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Bruce Beckham is currently reading Trent's Last Case (Philip Trent, #1) by E.C. Bentley	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Bruce Beckham rated a book it was amazing The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators by Martin Edwards (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I tend to reserve 5-star ratings for novels that I sense will leave a lasting impression upon me – but I don’t have a frame of reference for non-fiction, which I rarely read these days. However, I think this book merits top marks. Its subtitle is “Det ...more
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Bruce Beckham rated a book it was ok Hickory Dickory Dock (Hercule Poirot, #31) by Agatha Christie	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
There aren’t too many mediocre Agatha Christie novels, but this is one of them. It is a Poirot mystery set in a central London student boarding house – and therein lies the rub – seventeen possible suspects, poorly differentiated and, necessarily by v ...more
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Bruce Beckham rated a book it was ok The Ha-Ha Case by J.J. Connington	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
“A remarkably high standard of ingenuity & workmanship.” So says a quote on the front cover attributed to the New York Times. Hmm. I think their literary editor had an off day. That said, the novel was published in 1934, so who knows how and when the pu ...more
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This is a long-celebrated novel which I think, on balance, fails to live up to its promise … or perhaps I should say, “premise” – a legendary accursed Indian diamond that brings about the downfall of all those who possess it. Much like Wilkie Collins’ ...more
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Bruce Beckham rated a book it was amazing Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I thought I knew all about Robinson Crusoe, but when I began to read the eponymous novel, I realised that what I ‘knew’ was a childhood memory of a 1960s French TV series dubbed with ham American accents that bore little resemblance to the original w ...more
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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. ”
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“I began to appreciate that the job of an amateur sleuth was not quite so straightforward as they make out in the whodunits.”
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“ken whit tae dae wi’ it.”
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“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.)”
― William Faulkner, The Reivers

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“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.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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