Nagler's Secret: A Frank Nagler Mystery

By Michael Stephen Daigle

In 1994, Ironton, N.J., Detective Frank Nagler should be flying high.
As a rookie cop the year before he solved the city's worst-ever crime spree: Serial killer Charlie Adams had killed nine women until Nagler stopped him.
Nagler was a hero. People stopped him on the street to thank him.
But beneath the fa ade of joy, Nagler carried a secret, and that secret surfaced during a police raid on a house known for drugs and child sex.
A terrible case.
A terrible case that lingered.
In 2020, reporter Jimmy Dawson looked at his notes from that case and asked why it hadn't been solved.
Or had it?
Did it even exist?
So opens "Nagler's Secret," Book 6 of the Frank Nagler Mystery series.
The stories tell of the life and investigations of Ironton, N.J. Detective Frank Nagler and his hometown, Ironton, N.J.
The city is a former industrial center, and its fortunes rise and fall in the series, the streets and history acting as both backdrop and character.
The crimes in "Nagler's Secret" track for years, at times buried, at others, hiding in plain sight.
The investigation shows Nagler into a deep evil of exploitation, greed and revenge.
But it is a story Nagler knows.
He was there on that night in September 1994 when it began. On that night Jimmy Dawson watched the police action from the porch of a nearby house and wondered why nothing made sense.
A question he would carry for years.
What happened on that night that Frank Nagler was hiding. Or was hiding from.
What was Nagler's Secret?
The story is fast-paced, multi-layered and filled with fascinating characters both at the heart of the story and at the fringes where they saw, recorded and understood what happened that night.
Which of them knows Nagler's Secret.
Urban mystery of the finest sort, centered on a character called by Kirkus Reviews, "one of modern fiction's expertly drawn detectives."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWYHM8BH
• ISBN13: 9798992060928
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Eagle Enterprise
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.0"