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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
The Frank Nagler Mysteries An Anthology https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1793859523/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4
“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
Author Archives: michaelstephendaigle
Some new reviews for ‘The Red Hand.’ Listening Netflix?
Thanks to recent readers of The Red Hand, Frank Nagler Mystery. Coming soon, a preview of THE DRAGONY RISES, A new Frank Nagler Mystery. One line: “Ah, What ya believe about it don’t matter when it’s happen’ right in front … Continue reading
Join us at these book events: Sept. 11, Belvidere; Sept. 18, New Providence
September is festival month. Across New Jersey we are seeing events that last year were postponed or curtailed coming back to life in all their splendor. Please join us at these upcoming events. First up is the Author’s Alley at … Continue reading
Review: ‘State of Innocence:’ Compelling thriller. 4 stars
In the new and compelling thriller, “The State of Innocence,” Alexia Rodriquez-McKenzie is a troubled little girl, and suburban Mom/therapist Kimberley Mason is determined to find out why. Each of them shares a life event whose terrible nature draws them … Continue reading
Joy
This thing, this joy It streams from you whether you know it or not. From your eyes even when they are dark From your hands, fingers, mouth Like heat from your tender body Even from the uncertainty of everything Swirling … Continue reading
Nagler 5: Lauren returns
Lauren Fox is a city planner and the long time companion of Detective Frank Nagler. She left Ironton for what she said would be four days. She was a few days late, and with the city still roiled by unrest, … Continue reading
Broken; fixed
I get it, things break, disconnect. But they can be fixed. Sometimes it’s a matter of saying the right words to the right person at the right time. It started with the new storm door. It featured a self-storing screen … Continue reading
Light is time glowing
When space becomes energy; gathers. Light is time glowing. Boundaries blur, Heat, light shift. Touch, love, desire; all. Dark eyes light skin like silk soft; a sound teasing, whispering understood. Things taken, given. Time is light bent around us.
New Jersey mystery captures new award
I am greatly pleased and honored to announce that THE WEIGHT LIVING, Book 3 in the New Jersey-based Frank Nagler series has been graced with another award. Thank you Maincrest Media Awards. “The Weight of Living by Michael Stephen Daigle … Continue reading
Nagler 5: 15 sentences change the story
A turning point in Nagler 5, told in 15 sentences: “The storm never came. The promise of the storm had arrived. Muscular clouds pressed gloom below the hilltops. Trickster winds flipped the fall’s last leaves from wet grass to the … Continue reading
Nagler 5: Finding conspiracy
After a fire, after a murder, after friends leaving, after threats, Detective Frank Nagler visits a place he finds soothing: The Old Iron Bog: “The Old Iron Bog was as dark as a bad idea when Frank Nagler arrived; the … Continue reading
