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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: “The Swamps of New Jersey”
A new review of the Frank Nagler Mysteries. Warning: contains high praise (and the author is stunned)
We writers sit our desks and bemoan what we think is an inattentive world, and then this arrives: Thank you, Deborah Dameika. High praise, indeed. Thank you for reading the books, and taking the time to send me your thoughts. … Continue reading
We are West Hartley Parkway
It was a voice from the past. Fifty years past. “So, what have you been doing for the past fifty years?” It was the voice of Jim Morrison, my best friend and rock-and-roll bandmate from Fulton, N.Y. He had found … Continue reading
This grand American experiment
The lines we draw are for the most part imaginary and temporary. We cannot let them become permanent. 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
Pre-release links set for ‘The Weight of Living’; Kindle, Kobo. Out April 26.
The third Frank Nagler Mystery, “The Weight of Living,” will be released on Wednesday, April 26. My publisher Imzadi Publishing, has set up online pre-release links to secure your copy of the book, for Kindle or Kobo ebook formats Kindle version: … Continue reading
Michael Stephen Daigle 
ALICE in the real world
While writing “The Swamps of Jersey,” my political novel, I included a scene when the protagonist, Frank Nagler and his then-third-grade girlfriend (and later his wife) Martha Shannon, are walking home from school: “They stopped and spoke with everyone on … Continue reading →