Sign in with Facebook
more photos (43)
Bruce’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Bruce’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Bruce Beckham’s Followers (459)
166,927 books
|
4,030 friends
8,529 books
|
18 friends
71,214 books
|
389 friends
15,664 books
|
285 friends
16,767 books
|
142 friends
13,615 books
|
88 friends
1,484 books
|
54 friends
29,815 books
|
215 friends
More friends…
Bruce Beckham
Goodreads Author
Born
in Middlemarch, The United Kingdom
Website
Genre
Influences
John Updike, Patricia Highsmith, John Fowles, Ruth Rendell, Colin Dext
...more
Member Since
February 2014
|
Detective Inspector Skelgill (Inspector Skelgill Investigates, #1-4)
|
|
|
Murder in Adland (DI Skelgill Investigates, #1)
—
published
2012
—
5 editions
|
|
|
Murder on the Lake (DI Skelgill Investigates, #4)
—
published
2015
—
5 editions
|
|
|
Murder in the Woods (DI Skelgill Investigates, #8)
—
published
2017
—
5 editions
|
|
|
Murder In School (DI Skelgill Investigates, #2)
—
published
2014
—
5 editions
|
|
|
Murder on the Edge (DI Skelgill Investigates, #3)
—
published
2014
—
4 editions
|
|
|
Murder at the Flood (Inspector Skelgill Investigates, #9)
|
|
|
The DI Skelgill Series #5-7
|
|
|
Murder by Magic (DI Skelgill Investigates, #5)
—
published
2015
—
5 editions
|
|
|
Murder at the Wake (DI Skelgill Investigates, #7)
—
published
2016
—
4 editions
|
|
The Emperor's Clothes
The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary StevensonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Somehow this ended up as the monthly read for our street book group, The Page Turners - quite how, I'm not sure, as we're more a Cozy Mystery lot and I think you'd have to be moderately interested in financial markets and global economics to enjoy or even finish this book.
It does give a fascinating insight into the corporat Read more of this blog post »
Bruce’s Recent Updates
|
Bruce Beckham
is currently reading
|
|
|
Bruce Beckham
is currently reading
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
by Martin Edwards (Goodreads Author) |
|
|
Bruce Beckham
added a status update: FREE TODAY for 3 days in Kindle Stores Worldwide, #15 in the DI Skelgill series - a standalone mystery, 'Murder on the Moor' - just follow the link and click where it says "Buy for $0.00"
USA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0871HDWPX UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0871HDWPX CA https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0871HDWPX OZ https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0871HDWPX Thank you for your interest! |
|
|
Bruce Beckham
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
|
Bruce Beckham
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| This Miss Marple short story is entertaining if a little lacking in a couple of respects – namely, that the eminent spinster does not really play much of a part and that the author employs a cheat which, after considering such as a possible explanati ...more | |
|
Bruce Beckham
is currently reading
|
|
|
Bruce Beckham
is currently reading
|
|
|
Bruce Beckham
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| Of course, a masterpiece of writing – and how did Jane Austen do it, in 1814 with just a quill pen and parchment? No spell-check or Grammarly, no instant thesaurus, no cut and paste. The technical task of organising 160,000 words and hanging together ...more | |
|
Bruce Beckham
rated a book it was ok
|
|
| This is certainly one of the more challenging Golden Age mysteries that I have come across. Published in 1928 and authored by Irish-born ‘Lynn Brock’ it is the fourth of seven Colonel Wyckham Gore novels. The protagonist sleuth is a partner in a Lond ...more | |
|
Bruce Beckham
rated a book liked it
|
|
“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
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
English Mysteries...:
October 2014
|
29 | 100 | Sep 06, 2014 04:30PM | |
| Cozy Mystery Corner : 2000 Plus Challenge - Report Progress Here | 226 | 197 | Jun 04, 2016 04:16AM | |
|
Bookworm Bitches :
2016: Classics Scavenger Hunt
|
34 | 301 | Sep 20, 2016 08:21PM | |
|
Cozy Mysteries :
Title and Author game, Round 3
|
13653 | 558 | Apr 03, 2017 09:53AM | |
|
Game Night:
C-3PO - COMPLETE!
|
604 | 64 | May 28, 2017 01:55PM | |
| A Million More Pages: Pacific Ocean Challenge - Ring of Fire | 50 | 144 | Jun 02, 2017 11:18PM | |
|
Game Night:
DONE - Team 19: Time Sleuths - W
|
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
THE Group for Authors!
— 12909 members
— last activity Nov 19, 2025 09:55AM
This is a group for authors to discuss their craft, as well as publishing and book marketing.
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 300779 members
— last activity 1 minute ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group
— 31681 members
— last activity 6 minutes ago
“It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the ...more
English Mysteries Club
— 2884 members
— last activity 6 hours, 48 min ago
Do you love mysteries written in the "English" style? Why not come and join us? We are an established group of mystery readers, which has just re-laun ...more
Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers
— 25390 members
— last activity 32 minutes ago
Welcome and join us for our monthly group reads. We read Mysteries, Thrillers, and a variety of subgenres. True Crime, Cozy Mysteries, and Series are ...more
Crime Detective Mystery Thriller Group
— 2847 members
— last activity Nov 20, 2025 04:41AM
This is a book club/group for ALL books about crime, mysteries, and thrillers. From romantic suspense, to pulp fiction, to cozy mysteries, british det ...more
Trail-Mix Readers
— 621 members
— last activity Feb 27, 2022 12:01PM
We love to read, and we will read whatever we want! We like a little bit of this and a little bit of that, so each month, we feature six Books of th ...more
Indie-Crime Writers' Club
— 17 members
— last activity Feb 14, 2018 07:00AM
A very selective and somewhat shadowy group of crime writers who have self-published on Amazon, CreateSpace, IngramSpark, Smashwords (or similar).
Kindle British Mystery Book Club
— 1207 members
— last activity Nov 10, 2025 12:09AM
This is a book club for people who love British Mysteries both modern and classic. You do not have to own a Kindle. We have a monthly reads and these ...more
Goodreads Reviewers' Group
— 13155 members
— last activity 3 hours, 51 min ago
This group helps to bring Reviewers and Authors together! Reviewers can make their own thread to post their reviews in, or post their reviews in the r ...more
Comments (showing 1-6)
post a comment »
date
newest »
newest »
Thank you Bruce for becoming a friend on Goodreads.
Apr 28, 2016 04:18AM · flag
Oct 24, 2016 01:47PM · flag