• NIGHT FLIGHT TO MURDER TOWN

    Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast 82: Night Flight to Murder Town – A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 13 thru 15)

    Welcome back to Fearsome Fiction, and to Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller.

    When we last left Marshall, he was stepping into a world he wasn’t sure he could step back out of. Now in New York City he’s about to find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
    Chapter Thirteen drops Marshall into Trent’s world with all its chrome and white leather and carefully curated secrets. The apartment on the Upper East Side tells you everything you need to know about how far Trent has come, and how far he’s willing to go to stay there.

    Chapter Fourteen takes us downtown to the Village in all its complicated glory. The AIDS crisis hangs over everything like bad weather. The neighborhood is changing, the gays are moving north to Chelsea, and the yuppies are moving in behind them. Trent walks him through his little empire , a bar called Tipsy’s, a gym called Muscles, and the growing sense that whoever Trent is laundering money for is not someone you want to disappoint.

    Chapter Fifteen brings us forward in time to Lambertville, New Jersey where Marshall and Boo arrive at Passion House Bed and Breakfast. A man named Kyle Callahan tends flowers on the porch. His handyman Justin helps. His husband Danny waits inside. It appears a new day may be at hand.

  • Fearsome Fiction Podcast,  HARRY HELL NOVELLAS

    Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast Extra: Fatal Mistake – A Harry Hell Novella (Chapters 1 – 10)

    In addition to my weekly 3-chapter installments of ‘Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller,’ I’m offering up three extra-long listens of ‘Fatal Mistake: A Harry Hell Novella.’ It’s the first of three novellas planned that take us on the wild journey that is Harry Hell’s life. Queer, dystopian, fearsome.

    Fatal Mistake opens in a dying, collapsed world — a ruined island city divided between the fortified enclave of Eastward, where the privileged few cling to order, and the brutal wastelands outside its walls: the Ruins and the Slopes, where survival is the only law.

    Two storylines run in parallel. In the present, we meet Harry Hell — a former elite assassin who has spent five years hunting the most dangerous woman alive: a killer known only as Nectar. The story begins with her turning the tables on two of his men sent to find her, slitting one’s throat and sending the other back with a message. Harry is cold, purposeful, and consumed by a single obsession — avenging the death of Raul, his partner and the only person he ever loved, who Nectar killed.

  • Fearsome Fiction Podcast,  NIGHT FLIGHT TO MURDER TOWN

    Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast 80: Night Flight to Murder Town – A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 10 – 12)

    Welcome back to Fearsome Fiction, and to Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller.

    In the next three chapters, Marshall’s fresh start in New York takes a sharp, unsettling turn. What begins as a nostalgic breakfast in a familiar Manhattan diner becomes something far more dangerous when Trent finally hints at the truth behind his sudden wealth. Laundromats? Not exactly. And the “job” he has in mind for Marshall may come with consequences neither of them can fully control .

    As the charm of Trent’s polished world gives way to whispers, bodyguards, locked lobbies, and carefully managed secrets, Marshall realizes he may have stepped into something darker than he imagined. And just when the walls begin to close in, we shift—back to Lambertville. Back to Boo. Back to the choices that will define what kind of man Marshall becomes.

    A new city. A dangerous offer. And a past that refuses to stay in the rearview mirror.

    Settle in… the flight’s about to get turbulent.

  • Fearsome Fiction Podcast

    Listen Along! Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller, on the Fearsome Fiction Podcast

    Listen Along to Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller (Book 4)

    On the Fearsome Fiction Podcast

    The engines are humming. The runway lights flicker. And somewhere in the darkened city below, things are about to go very wrong.

    On the Fearsome Fiction Podcast, you’re invited to listen along as I roll out three new chapters at a time of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller (Book 4).

    This is a serialized descent into mystery, murder and corruption on a killer scale.  Three chapters. Then a breath. Then three more.

    About the Story

    Marshall James returns in Night Flight to Murder Town, Book 4. Marshall is thinking of leaving New York City with his husband for a new life away from the hectic pace of the nation’s largest city. But how did he get here in the first place? After three stories detailing his harrowing Hollywood past, where lovers, losers, and a serial killer or two nearly ended his life before he could make something of it, he finally tells us how and why he left LaLa Land for Gotham.

  • Fearsome Fiction Podcast,  NIGHT FLIGHT TO MURDER TOWN

    Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Night Flight to Murder Town – A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 7 – 9)

    Welcome back to the Fearsome Fiction Podcast. One of my offerings is the weekly serialization of Night Flight to Murder Town – A Marshall James Thriller, book 4. This week, we dive into Chapters Seven through Nine of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller. Marshall leaves behind Hollywood—and a heartbreaking goodbye—to chase a new life in New York City. But from a turbulent red-eye flight to a sunrise over Manhattan, it’s clear this isn’t just a fresh start. With Trent waiting at the gate, a mysterious chauffeur, and whispers of danger already in the air, Marshall’s arrival in the City may be the beginning of something far more complicated—and far more dangerous—than he ever imagined.

    Let’s step into the night flight… and what’s waiting on the other side.