{"id":12879,"date":"2019-10-03T19:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12879"},"modified":"2019-10-03T19:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T23:11:10","slug":"murdery-mystery-weekend-by-bruce-beckham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12879","title":{"rendered":"‘Murdery Mystery Weekend,’ by Bruce Beckham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the eleventh outing<\/strong> in Bruce Beckham\u2019s enjoyable Inspector Skelgill series, the author once again plays with old detective story tropes. Murder Mystery Weekend<\/a><\/em> has a setting right out of Agatha Christie \u2013 a castle in Cumberland, where a millionaire has gathered a group of friends to celebrate his birthday with a \u201cmurder mystery weekend\u201d game. Only before the festivities can start, his young, beautiful wife is dead \u2013 hanging from a hook in the bathroom. It looks like suicide \u2013 but what reason did she have to kill herself? Inspector Skelgill is called in to investigate, and soon begins to suspect foul play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These old friends, it turns out, have complicated\nrelationships \u2013 including a tradition of mate-swapping. The millionaire host is\nnot as beloved as initial reports said, and his deceased wife had a checkered\nhistory of her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not Skelgill\u2019s preferred kind of case \u2013 he much prefers\nsomething less psychological, set in the outdoors. But he\u2019s up to the\nchallenge, supported by his subordinates, female DS Jones and male DS Leyton.\nThe secrets will come out, and Skelgill will fish deep to bring up the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very enjoyable, like all the books in the series.\nRecommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the eleventh outing in Bruce Beckham\u2019s enjoyable Inspector Skelgill series, the author once again plays with old detective story tropes. Murder Mystery Weekend has a setting right out of Agatha Christie \u2013 a castle in Cumberland, where a millionaire has gathered a group of friends to celebrate his birthday with a \u201cmurder mystery weekend\u201d … Continue reading ‘Murdery Mystery Weekend,’ by Bruce Beckham<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[413,1310,1951],"class_list":["post-12879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-bruce-beckham","tag-inspector-skelgill","tag-murder-mystery-weekend"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}