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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
Tag Archives: Frank Nagler. Ironton
Release date for ‘The Red Hand’: July 4
It’s gritty, moving, probably confounding, and it will be released July 4. “The Red Hand,” the latest Frank Nagler Mystery has a release date. Details will be available soon on how to pre-order a copy. In the meantime, catch up … Continue reading
5-Star review of ‘The Weight of Living’ : ‘A stunning and engrossing meditation on grief and survival’ (Thank you!)
Thanks to this reviewer for their reading of “The Weight of Living.” Coming soon, “The Red Hand,” the prequel that tells you all you wanted to know about Frank Nagler and Ironton, N.J. The review: 5 STARS. HOW DEEP DOES … Continue reading
Is this how the new Frank Nagler story ends?
This is another piece for the new Frank Nagler story, a work in progress. This might be the end of the book, but then again it might not be. The thing about a work in progress is that things change. … Continue reading
‘A Game Called Dead’ : Harriet Waddley-Jones’ Me-Too moment
In the Frank Nagler Mysteries, there are victims of crimes who are “wrong-place, wrong-time” victims, characters who die blameless. Others carry deeper troubles, and in trying to purge those demons, deliberately act, and as a result, become targets of the … Continue reading
‘I want to remember touch and taste’; Scene from the WIP Frank Nagler prequel
In the Frank Nagler prequel, in progress, Frank and his wife Martha have to face her leukemia. It had been in remission. Here they face the fact that her condition might have changed. “The neighborhood hummed with window fans … Continue reading
Library event: Independence Township, Feb. 10
I’ll be speaking at the Warren County Library Northeast Branch at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10. The library is located at 10 Route 46, Independence, Township, N.J. I will also be at the Parsippany-Troy Hills Public Library at 7 p.m., … Continue reading
Join me at the South Jersey Book Expo, March 11
I’ll be attending the South Jersey Book Expo on Saturday, March 11. The event is sponsored by BrokenBars Publishing. The event is at the Deptford Mall, 1750 Deptford Center Road, Deptford, N.J. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the … Continue reading
“Everything we used to think was wrong with someone else is now wrong with us.”
Finishing a rewrite of “Swamps of Jersey.” The mystery part of the story is placed in the context of a hard economy, a devastating flood and fractured politics. I use reporter Jimmy Dawson to catalogue all this. Here is one … Continue reading
