About Steve Goble
Steve Goble is a former Ohio journalist, now working with a digital investigations and cybersecurity firm in Cleveland. He writes a series of modern-day detective novels and a series of historical mysteries featuring pirates in the 1720s. He is a board member for Mystery Writers of America’s Midwest Chapter.
Read BookTrib’s review of City Problems here.
BOOKS:
City Problems (July 2021, Oceanview Publishing)
The Bloody Black Flag (2017, Seventh Street Books)
The Devil’s Wind (2018, Seventh Street Books)
A Bottle of Rum (2019, Seventh Street Books)
Pieces of Eight (May 2021, Seventh Street Books
Your biggest literary influences:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Raymond Chandler, John D. MacDonald, Patrick O’Brian, Ed McBain, many more
Last book read:
The Lair of the White Worm, by Bram Stoker
The book that changed your life:
Treasure Island made me a lifelong reader and led me to many great adventure novels. That, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, eventually inspired me to write my historical mysteries featuring pirates.
Your favorite literary character:
Sherlock Holmes, who may very well be why I lean toward rational, scientific solutions to things as opposed to pseudoscientific woo.
Currently working on:
The second Ed Runyon detective novel, tentatively titled Desperate Moves.
Words to live by:
The most important things in your life are the people you love and the time you spend with them. And books.
Advice for aspiring authors:
Find your own voice, as opposed to trying to duplicate what some other author does. The key to standing out and finding an audience is to be original.
Testimonials
” In this debut outing of a new series, Steve Goble delivers an authentic, compelling story of a rural cop with a haunted past. City Problems is both a dynamic procedural and an incisive portrait of a man at war with himself. Although the stunning, profane prose should be savored, I’m betting this is a book you will gobble up in a single sitting.
- '- William Kent Krueger, New York Times best-selling author
” City Problems is a crime thriller of rare emotional depth, pathos, and angst. Steve Goble masterfully introduces us to a new hero in Detective Ed Runyon . . . in a bold and bracing fashion reminiscent of Michael Connelly and Robert Crais. And, if Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler had ever chosen a rural setting for their crime novels, this is what it would look like.
- - Jon Land, USA Today best-selling author
” A terrific new series. Ed Runyon is a relentless cop, and Goble puts a fresh spin on the cop with a haunted past.
- - Terry Shames, Lefty and Macavity Award-winning author