Ben Bruce

@therealbenbruce

Author of The Regulators series. Work in TV. Interviews authors while quizzing at The UK Crime Book Club on FB. Linktr.ee/benbruce

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Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· 18d

Delighted to announce that I will be at Preston Crime Fiction Festival this September, talking about; "Building The Perfect Mystery" alongside @dvbishop.com and @davidbeckler.bsky.social with @lizmistry.bsky.social moderating. Can't wait to be there. Tickets available now at the link below.

Poster for Preston Crime Fiction Festival.

Text reads 25-27 September 2026

Sunday 27 September
Preston Masonic Hall
Ashlar House, Saul Street, PRI 2QU
Panel 1: The architect of the crime: building the perfect mystery
With Ben Bruce, D. V. Bishop, David Beckler and moderator Liz Mistry
10.00-10.55
Book signing: 10.55-11.15
Panel 2: The psychology of secrets
With Caroline England, Tim Sullivan, Andrew James Greig and moderator Caroline Maston
11.15-12.10
Book signing: 12.10-12.30
Break
12.10-13.10
Panel 3: The chronicles of time: writing the past vs writing the present
With Vaseem Khan, Anna Mazzola, Christie J.
Newport and moderator Guy Hale
Panel 4: The burden of proof: trauma, plausibility and honest mistruths With Lesley Kara, Simon McCleave, Liz Mistry and moderator lain Grant
13.15-14.10
Book signing: 14.10-14.30
14.30-15.25
Book signing: 15.25-15.45
15.45-16.40
Panel 5: Extra panel TBC!
Book signing: 16.40-17.00
The festival will draw to a close at 6.30 p.m.
Thank you so much for joining us!

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· 19d

Three more reviews to hit 400. If you've read any of my books, pop some stars on it. There is nothing more useful to authors than ratings. That & telling a mate that you enjoyed it & they should read it too. Unless you hated it. In which case tell someone you don't like that they should read it.

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· 24d

Long overdue.

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UK”

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· 27d

When you look down in the shower.

Plant description board. Text reads. Spotted Medick
Medicago arabica
Description
The clue is in the name- the leaves of Spotted Medio have dark spots and the flowers are yellow. The seeds are small and round in spirals with spines.
Medics belong to the Pea family and the flowers are pea-like but very small and in a cluster.

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· 29d

Peaked at darts.

A red dart embedded just under a dart board with a blue dart rested side on, on top of it.

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jul 12

What the hell is this monstrosity?

Picture of an ad for a bottle of 1664 Kronenbourg Rose. Yes, you heard me. Kronenbourg Rose. Text on ad reads 1664
KROMENBOURG
ROSE
THE PERFECT SUMMER DRINK
Served ice cold
£5.75

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jul 8

Missed my chat on the UKCBC last week? Watch it in all it's glory on their YouTube channel here. @ukcrimebookclub.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/QSXx990...

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jul 3

Three and a half hours till I'm live on the @ukcrimebookclub.bsky.social talking about Parallel Execution. Best get myself into make up and get out the polyfilla. Link below!

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jul 2

Join me & @sambrownley.bsky.social tomorrow night on the @ukcrimebookclub.bsky.social at 7pm. I'll be talking about my latest book, The Regulators: Parallel Execution & no doubt other tenuous but hopefully amusing (to me anyway) things. Tomorrow Friday 3rd 7pm. fb.me/e/47fdvTPxs #CrimeFiction

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jul 1

Sympathies and thoughts to all his loved ones and fans. Apart from that one guy.

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Village People frontman
Victor Willis dies aged 74
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Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 25

No point trying to push a book set in a heatwave in the middle of a heatwave... #Heatwave #IndieAuthor #CrimeFiction

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 25

Sky VIP rewards freebies at Sainsbury’s coming up with the win today. Last pack as well.

Box of four Sainsbury’s Valencia orange ice lollies going in a freezer.

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 23

Decent knock that #IndieAuthor

Text reads 1,500,202 Page reads on Kindle

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 23

Last chance to get The Regulators FREE on Amazon... mybook.to/TheRegulatorsBenBruce

Image of two men holding guns on an orange smokey background in front of the Houses of Parliament. Text reads. The Regulators. Ben Bruce. Justice Above Law.

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 22

So close… #IndieAuthor

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Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 22

There are other ways to remove a Prime Minister... #Starmer

Poster for The Regulators Dead Line by Ben Bruce. Tag line reads Justice Above Law. Three people stand in action poses on a red backdrop on which are the Houses of Parliament with a helicopter flying over head. Also reads available at Amazon in paperback and Ebook.

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 19

FREE THIS WEEKEND! As I'm chatting to Sam Brownley on the UKCBC tonight you can get the first book in the series free over on Kindle? Praise for The Regulators series: "Fresh... Original... Compelling." Alis Hawkins, author of A Bitter Remedy...

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 19

Cats making us feel welcome.

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Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 16

Thoughts on my time at Shetland Noir benbruce.co.uk?p=265

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 16

This is unnecessarily harsh. Scoring one is an achievement in and of itself. Two is magnificent.

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New Zealand's Elijah Just scores twice in 2-2 draw with Iran
World Cup

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 12

The Regulators: Parallel Execution is out now in all formats!

Book cover for The Regulators Parallel Execution by Ben Bruce featuring a drone on a blue and yellow background

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 11

Skycards giving out apt missions today. I’m flying two flights. One on a Bombardier, one on an ATR. Just need to squeeze a Beech in there.

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COMPLETE ALL IN 15 HOURS
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Catch an ATR aircraft
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Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 10

Be an author, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.

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“When your book delivery for the festival is split into two packages of 27 & 3, but the box containing 27 is damaged to the point of it all being ruined, so there's nothing to do but drink the last of the Chardonnay...
#FML #AUTHORLIFE”

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 10

Just two days to go...

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 9

Fit and Proper.

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Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 6

You had one job. #Scotland

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 6

Went for a walk. Had ideas. Emailed to self. Rinse repeat every couple of hundred metres.

Three emails sent by me to me at 15:30, 15:33, 15:39. One has the title PLOT and reads “they should go…” but everything else on the emails is obscured, cuz SPOILERS!

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 3

I really enjoy book scammers telling me they've enjoyed Parallel Execution, given it's not out till June 12th. (It is really good though. You should pre-order it. mybook.to/ParallelExecution )

Banner for The Regulators: Parallel Execution by Ben Bruce. A drone soars through blue and yellow clouds. A 3d rendering of the book with the same image on it is on the right.

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 2

I GOT MAIL!

Ben Bruce@therealbenbruce· Jun 2

If you don't yet know about The Regulators ahead of the release of the fourth book, here's a little about the series so far.