The books in the Frank Nagler Mystery Series are each deserving of the awards they have recieved, they are compelling and masterfully crafted. We at Imzadi Publishing feel privileged to work with Mr. Daigle and look forward to the next installment in this series. If you haven’t read a Frank Nagler Mystery yet these are sure to satisfy craving for a good crime novel and are available in print or ebook today!
The hardest part of writing at times is knowing too much.
In the case of THE RED HAND, the Frank Nagler Mystery series prequel, that was surely the case. I had written three books about Frank Nagler, Ironton. N.J., and set out to write the fourth.
I had a choice – Go forward, or go back and examine the story from the beginning.
I went back, deciding answering questions about the past would help the series move forward.
That’s went it got hard.
I knew too much about Frank and the town and the story that needed to be told.
And it showed up in the writing, which was flat, predictable and boring.
There is this: If as a writer you are bored with what you are putting on paper, the reader will be, too.
So, I started over by beginning the story in the middle.
It worked.
It gave…
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