I’m Bob Steele, writer and publisher
Welcome to my website. Here you can find out more about me, my novels and my non-fiction writing. My thrillers are set in recent times against a real-world background that you may find broadly familiar. Of course, the hazards and challenges my characters face are fictional – although they might well have happened in real life, given a little imagination. My non-fiction articles and stories are mainly about aspects of the rich history of the Welsh Marches that catch my interest.
Bob Steele
The tranquility of our home – an ancient watermill in the heart of the Marches of Wales – is perfect for letting the imagination roam free and for concentration on the hard work of research and writing.
What I do
My Thriller Novels
Do you ever speculate about what might really lie behind strange things that happen in the world? Do you ask yourself why some people are winners and others losers? I do, all the time. The possibilities I come up with inspire my novels.
Articles and Stories
The area where I live has been disputed and fought over for more than a thousand years. Researching the history of my watermill soon led me into writing and publishing non-fiction articles and stories about other local events, places and people.
Publishing
My novels are published on Amazon through my own publishing company, Watermill Enterprises. I publish most of my non-fiction work on a website set up for the purpose in collaboration with a group of like-minded local historians.
My Next Thriller
To be released soon:
David Tyler thought he had escaped the murky, cutthroat world of the media and public relations business when he quit to become a management consultant. But the murder and brutal branding with a red-hot iron of a top executive at his latest client, FireBrand, thrusts him back into the heart of his old profession, which engineers brand images without a care for wrecked lives and broken dreams in its wake. A serial killer is at work, targeting the self-proclaimed ‘grand masters’ who brag of their ability to transform monsters into messiahs and conjure redemption for the irredeemable – for the right price. David becomes entangled in a deadly conspiracy from his past when he realises the killer is making an eerily familiar statement with his branding irons, one corpse and one letter at a time. Meanwhile, his FireBrand client contact, Ivy Lang, nurses a guilty secret. Her career has been built working alongside the killer’s victims, learning the dark arts of her trade. Sensing a target on her own back, she blackmails David to confront his demons and join her in a campaign to unmask the killer. But they discover that the man they label ‘The Brander’ is in some ways much like them – someone in the industry, someone with a conscience, someone determined to right wrongs. Someone with whom the temptation of a Devil’s Pact to purge the profession of its worst excesses suddenly looms large. But their actions stir up deeper and darker forces. Now they are confronted by a powerful enemy who will go to any lengths to preserve the status quo. They must each decide if they will stand and fight for their beliefs – and whether such a battle can be won at all.
