Mark McNease

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The human condition in five uneasy pieces … ‘5 of a Kind’ picks up where ‘An Unobstructed View’ left off, offering five unique perspectives on the human experience.

About ‘5 of a Kind’

5 of a Kind is a collection of short stories that explore the human condition in all its folly, joy, despair and hope. From a woman whose small son is there one moment and gone the next, to a man who has spent his life peering out at the world from behind a curtain, to teenagers on an Indiana back road encountering the impossible. Each story and its characters express the inner voices of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Some survive, though in what way and in what state they had never imagined.

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Hello to all 1,400 of my newest friends! I hope everyone enjoyed the Instafreebies. There are more on the way, exclusively for you.

I’m in Provincetown for the first time, staying in a time share with my husband Frank and enjoying this amazing place. I’m also hard at work on two (that’s right, two!) novels I expect to have out in the coming months: Murder at the Paisley Parrot: A Marshall James Novel, and Black Cat White Paws: A Maggie Dahl Mystery. Each book is very different from the other. Murder at the Paisley Parrot tells the story of Marshall James, now 58 and living in New York City, as he decides to reveal a series of murders he was involved in back in Hollywood, circa 1983. He was a young bartender then, caught between a serial killer, the mob, and a homicide detective named Mac he falls in love with. What could go wrong?

I knew Jean Ryan’s ‘Strange Company’ nature essay collection was special when I first read it. Published under my MadeMark Publishing imprint, each essay is a look at the human condition, through a loving, meticulous look at the natural world we live in.

Death by Pride: A Kyle Callahan Mystery marked the conclusion of the Pride Trilogy. As one reader said, ” … this book creeped me out. It was supposed to. McNease has a way with creating suspense even while not actually hiding anything. The transparency of the tale does nothing to lessen the anxiety that builds as it unfolds.” – Ulysses Dietz

For the next three days, Death by Pride is available for just .99 cents at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo. And you can still get Last Room at the Cliff’s Edge as an Instafreebie! Sign up, download, and take a ride on the mystery train.

Save the date! ‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot (A Marshall James Novel)’ will be releasing this October. For inquiring minds: Marshall James is a variation of my birth name, James Marshall Greene, changed when I was adopted into the McNease family. Yes, I write under my own name (but stay tuned for an exciting twist on that in 2018!).

About ‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’:

Time waits for no one, including Marshall James. Now 58 and living in New York City, Marshall has outlived the expiration date he was given with a cancer diagnosis three years ago. He beat the odds but he knows he may not beat the clock, so he’s decided to tell a story or three about some murders he was involved in back in the day.

The year was 1983. The bar was the Paisley Parrot, a gay, mob-run, Hollywood dive where people came to drink and few of them remembered the night before. Marshall loves his job as a bartender there. But one night, among the regulars, a killer arrives. Body by body, death by death, Marshall finds himself pulled into a web of murder, deceit and crime. He falls for the cop who’s investigating him, not knowing if their relationship will survive or even if he’ll come out of this alive. Find out in Murder at the Paisley Parrot, arriving with a bang this October.