Review: Tight story, great characters
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2012
With "Murder in Adland" Bruce Beckham has created a wonderful cast of characters.Skelgill and Jones are dispatched to a hotel where an ad executive and CEO was found murdered in his bed. As popular as he was, Ivan, the murdered man, had nonetheless made some enemies, and some of them worked for him. Through an oversight it takes Skelgill and Jones a couple of days to realise they are on the wrong track, and they have to make up for lost time. Will they be in time to prevent another murder?Apart from the whodunnnit part of the book, which was skillfully written, and allowed for no plot holes, the development of the characters was superb. There were times when the writing reminded me P.D. James, because the people came to life on the page for me. I enjoyed Skelgill's weaknesses - fishing and food and Jones makes a perfect sidekick for him.It looks like Beckham has only written this one book so far. I really hope that he will be adding more to his collection soon.