Michael Stephen Daigle is the author of the award winning Frank Nagler Mysteries. He lives in New Jersey.
<p>Richard II found himself under siege not once, but twice in his minority. Crowned king at age ten, he was only fourteen when the Peasants' Revolt terrorized London. But he proved himself every bit the Plantagenet successor, facing Wat Tyler and the rebels when all seemed lost. Alas, his triumph was short-lived, and for the next ten years he struggled to assert himself against his uncles and increasingly hostile nobles. Just like in the days of his great-grandfather Edward II, vengeful magnates strove to separate him from his friends and advisors, and even threatened to depose him if he refused to do their bidding. The Lords Appellant, as they came to be known, purged the royal household with the help of the Merciless Parliament. They murdered his closest allies, leaving the King alone and defenseless. He would never forget his humiliation at the hands of his subjects. Richard's inability to protect his adherents would haunt him for the rest of his life, and he vowed that next time, retribution would be his.</p>
Two college women are attacked at Ironton, N.J.. State College. In the second Frank Nagler Mystery, Detective Frank Nagler must solve crimes, and defend his friend and himself against what appears to be and unprovoked attack from the Internet terrorist. #ARMAGEDDON. A roller-coaster ride of a story. A Runner-Up in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Contest
<p><span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;">Detective Frank Nagler is Ironton, the northern New Jersey city where the story takes place. Both teeter on the knife’s edge between hope and despair. The city wallows in economic crisis brought on by the post-industrial era and exacerbated by greedy local politicians. But its heart of gold, the city’s resilient people who dream of better times and a different life for their children, fight the good fight, generation after generation, despite all odds. Nagler is the Fisher King, the death of his young wife twenty years earlier creating the dolorous wound that continues to bleed and will not heal.</span><br style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:'&quot';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;" /><br style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:'&quot';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;" /><span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;">The story opens with the savage beating of two women in a college dormitory and rapidly escalates to murder. One victim hints that a psychopath obsessed with a multiplayer online game may have brought its brutality into the physical world. A beautiful, but troubled college administrator steps forward to guide Nagler through the academic bureaucracy, but is she friend or foe? Meanwhile, Nagler’s friend, a local business owner who is both blind and confined to a wheelchair, is terrorized by someone who is sadistically toying with him, destroying his store and his livelihood. Are the deaths and violence as random as they appear, or is there something deeper and more malevolent festering in Ironton?</span><br style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:'&quot';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;" /><br style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:'&quot';font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;" /><span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;">“A Game Called Dead” is a literary mystery that will keep you turning the pages. If you enjoy stories with vivid characters, unexpected plot twists and strong writing, you should read this book.</span></p>