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Bruce’s 2024 Year in Books
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Bruce Beckham
Goodreads Author
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John Updike, Patricia Highsmith, John Fowles, Ruth Rendell, Colin Dext
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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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Mansfield Park by Jane AustenMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
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 a coherent narrative is a minor miracle in itself.
It is a slow-moving story in which little h 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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| 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 | |
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added a status update: FREE TODAY for 5 days in the Kindle Store, #14 in the DI Skelgill series, Murder at the Meet - just click where it says: $0.00 to buy!
US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z42TH8W UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Z42TH8W CA https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07Z42TH8W Oz https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07Z42TH8W Thank you for your interest! |
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I came across The Man in the Queue on the dust jacket of an old Agatha Christie edition, and thought I should give it a try, the author being a contemporary of the ‘Queen of Crime’ – and the novel being published in 1929. It is generally well written ...more |
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Hi Nancy, thanks for taking the time to contact me and I'm sorry you did not enjoy the AI narration - you have highlighted something of a Catch22 situation. My publishers of audio books have been thrown into a quandary by the advent of AI. I understa
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| I came across the prolific Belfast-born John Haslette Vahey advertised on the dust jacket of an old copy of Agatha Christie’s The Mystery of the Blue Train. As a Golden Age contemporary of Christie, he published 22 crime novels between 1928-1938 unde ...more | |
“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 | 557 | 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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| 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.
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