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The Red Hand: “A winning origin story for one of modern fiction’s expertly drawn detectives.” — Kirkus Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Stephen-Daigle/e/B00P5WBOQC
“The Red Hand” was named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2019 Big NYC Book Contest Named Second Place winner for mysteries in the 2019 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards Named a Notable 100 Book in the 2019 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2020 Independent Press Awards A Nominee in the 2020 TopShelf Book Awards Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards
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“A Game Called Dead” was named a Runner-Up in the Shelf Unbound 2016 Best Indie Book contest. “The Weight of Living” was awarded First Place for mysteries in the 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Award contest; Named A Notable 100 Book, Shelf Unbound 2018 Indie Book Awards; Named a Distinguished Favorite, 2018 Independent Press Awards. Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2018 Big NYC Book Contest. Named a Finalist in the 2019 Book Excellence Awards. Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards
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Elegy for the girl in the red dress
Maybe the words stumbled from his mouth as he said them; maybe he shouted them from the rooftop.
But you felt it in his hands when he guided your first steps, felt it in his arms when he shared the joys of your triumphs or the sorrows of the moments of loss and worry.
Maybe it was just a look, a soft stare, a reflective glance while you chatted away filling the lost time with all you could say about your life; maybe he just caught your eye and smiled.
The love and protection he offered as a child deepened and changed over time to appreciation, respect and awareness of your accomplishments even as you remained his little girl, seeking approval, the dream he had for you, the opportunities he helped create fulfilled.
And now the role has changed. It is you who offers compassion in kind words, remembered times. It is you who offers the consoling hand. The pressure of the hand remains.
Life is being.
So stand to face the rising sun and breathe in those things of meaning you and he created, absorb the colors and sounds of places, dwell in those spells of silence, those moments of incomprehensible understanding.
The cool breeze will brush your cheek, toss back your hair; your busy hands will look for something to hold.
Hold to him and yourself. All is intertwined.
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I have been writing most of my life. I am the author of the award-winning Frank Nagler Mystery series. "The Swamps of Jersey (2014); "A Game Called Dead" (2016) -- a Runner-Up in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Indie Author Contest; and "The Weight of Living" (2017) -- First Place winner for Mysteries in the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards Contest.