{"id":12922,"date":"2019-10-14T19:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12922"},"modified":"2019-10-14T19:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:22:30","slug":"murder-at-the-flood-by-bruce-beckham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12922","title":{"rendered":"‘Murder at the Flood,’ by Bruce Beckham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019ve lost all the sequence <\/strong>in the Inspector Skelgill series of novels, having jumped forward at some point and now needing to fill in the books I missed (I think I\u2019ve caught up now). It doesn\u2019t really matter, though, the basic formula doesn\u2019t change \u2013 Inspector Skelgill, the crusty, misanthropic Cumbria policeman whose two passions are crime solving and fishing, supported by the attractive female DS Jones and transplanted cockney DS Leyton. In the background is always the unspoken attraction between him and Jones, which he\u2019s too obtuse to follow up. But then women are always throwing themselves at him, and he generally doesn\u2019t bother his head about them either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Murder at the Flood<\/a><\/em> he has more than his share. Roger Alcock, a local kayaking outfitter with a reputation as a lady\u2019s man, disappears during a freak flood. When his body is found a couple days later, it looks like he hit his head and drowned, but the pathologist says no. It was murder. Roger Alcock\u2019s widow is an obvious suspect, but Skelgill is reluctant to believe it of her. He knew her as a girl, when he dated her older sister \u2013 who has now returned from Australia and taken direct sexual aim at Skelgill. There\u2019s also a female TV reporter who\u2019s willing to scratch his back if he\u2019ll scratch hers \u2013 probably in more senses than one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skelgill will sort it all out in the end, as he always does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good entertainment in a good series. The disturbing stuff happens offstage, and the author happily admits that he edits out the worst language. Recommended, as is the whole series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve lost all the sequence in the Inspector Skelgill series of novels, having jumped forward at some point and now needing to fill in the books I missed (I think I\u2019ve caught up now). It doesn\u2019t really matter, though, the basic formula doesn\u2019t change \u2013 Inspector Skelgill, the crusty, misanthropic Cumbria policeman whose two passions … Continue reading ‘Murder at the Flood,’ 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":[413,1310,1942],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-bruce-beckham","tag-inspector-skelgill","tag-murder-at-the-flood"],"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\/12922","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=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}