Murder at Midsomar Manor
(2026)(Book 27 in the Detective Inspector Skelgill Investigates series)
A novel by Bruce Beckham
GREAT EXCITEMENT GRIPS Cumbria when Midsomar Manor, a small private Lakeland hotel, is chosen as the filming location for ‘FRIEND or FOE?’, the reality TV show that has captured the nation’s imagination – and this the ‘Celebrity Edition’, no less.
A former colonial estate, set in private grounds close to the shore of picturesque Somar Water, Midsomar Manor seems the perfect choice. With its thirteen bedrooms and classic Georgian country house features – drawing room, billiards room, cocktail bar, wine cellar, scullery, attics, gun room – it is the film producer’s dream. And, for an added touch of spice, it has a dark secret … of course it does.
In the game, contestants must form unlikely alliances and vote to save their skins. But who is friend and who is foe? When inflated egos clash, and old enmities resurface, victims may be selected for the wrong reasons.
And when tragedy strikes, is the game to blame, or is sinister opportunism afoot … or is it the hand of the supernatural?
Genre: Mystery
A former colonial estate, set in private grounds close to the shore of picturesque Somar Water, Midsomar Manor seems the perfect choice. With its thirteen bedrooms and classic Georgian country house features – drawing room, billiards room, cocktail bar, wine cellar, scullery, attics, gun room – it is the film producer’s dream. And, for an added touch of spice, it has a dark secret … of course it does.
In the game, contestants must form unlikely alliances and vote to save their skins. But who is friend and who is foe? When inflated egos clash, and old enmities resurface, victims may be selected for the wrong reasons.
And when tragedy strikes, is the game to blame, or is sinister opportunism afoot … or is it the hand of the supernatural?
Genre: Mystery