|
MORGAN ST. JAMES, click here
to update your web pages on AuthorsDen.
|
|
|
|  | | A Corpse in the Soup
A zany romp through the world of TV celebrity chefs in search of a killer. Twins Goldie and Godiva try to prove their friend didn't do it.
When a famous chef is killed at the "over-the-top" televised Greatest Gourment Gladiators Tournament, twins Goldie Silver, and over-the-hill flower child who owns an antique shop in Juneau, Alaska, and her wealthy selfish twin Godiva Olivia DuBois, a Beverly Hills advice columnist set out to prove that Godiva's boyfriend didn't do it.
With unwanted help from their eighty year old mother and uncle, former vaudeville magicians who still perform at the Hollywood Home for Has Beens, they wind up in some prett | |  | | A Deadly Plan - Vengeance Has A New Name
Vengeance never forgets, and the Strangler’s recent death may have triggered a deadly reckoning.As two cases collide, Mack Peters uncovers a chilling conspiracy that could cost him his life.
Twelve years after the unsolved murder of his father, former LAPD detective Mack Peters is dragged back into the shadows. Someone is killing people tied to the Beverly Hills Strangler case—and Mack might be next.
Vengeance never forgets, and the Strangler’s recent death may have triggered a | |  | | A Life in Bits and Pieces
This is more than a life story. It is a celebration of survival, strength, humor, and the enduring power of storytelling.
Bestselling and award-winning author Morgan St. James has brought readers unforgettable mysteries, true-crime accounts, and engaging fiction. Behind every book was a woman with stories of her own—stories of courage, humor, heartbreak, perseverance, and deeply personal transformation.
In My Life in Bits and Pieces, Morgan answers the question readers have asked for years: | |  | | A Risky Game: The Odds Are Deadly
A gripping crime thriller for fans of fast twists, dark secrets, and adrenaline-fueled suspense
A mobster with a broken memory---A stolen fortune hidden for 15 years.
Mack Peters is about to play A Risky Game—and the next move could get him killed.
ONE MOBSTER’S FINAL PLEA. MACK PETER’S DEADLY CHOICE.
When former Las Vegas mob boss Sal Mangino sends Mack Peters a desperate message, Mack never expects what follows.
Sal was recently released from prison on parole and is losing his memory. He claims Mack holds the only key to the location of a stolen fortune he hid fifteen ago before he went to prison… and to explosive documents powerful people would kill to protect. | | Betrayed
A beautiful teenage ballerina is drugged and kidnapped by people she considered friends and sold into a brothel. Inspired by true events.
Betrayal in the most profound way! Kidnapped, raped and left for dead.
 | | Bumping Off Fat Vinny
Revenge is Fun series. Publisher Vinny Vitali deserves to be whacked, but for some reason he's like a cat with 9 lives. He's holding a mob widow's memoir hostage and the authors want to kill him, but he won't die.
He deserves to be whacked. There's only one problem-he's still alive when he's supposed to be dead.
| | Can We Come In and Laugh, Too?
Rosetta was born in 1909 as the youngest of ten children. The family had more laughter than money and neighbors would knock on their door to ask, "Can we come in and laugh, too?"
Rosetta Schwartz (later Rosetta Shifrin and finally Rosetta Lachman) was an ordinary woman with the extraordinary ability to make people believe in themselves.
She wrote this memoir in 1989 when she was 80 years old. Her daughter, author Morgan St. James, uncovered it and edited it in 2012, adding her own comments and those from some family members as Part II, along with a reprint of “Shopping Fo | |  | | Confessions of a Cougar
Audrey and Sue, both 42, took a trip to England completely paid for by Audrey's cheating millionaire boyfriend. “Cougar” describes older women on the prowl for much younger men, and although they didn't begin the trip on the prowl, somehow they became members of the pack.
Author Morgan St. James says the story of how she became a "Cougar" is one that begged to be told. Names have been changed, but almost everything else is true.
It all happened when she and her girlfriend, both 42 at the time, took a trip to England completley paid for by Morgan's cheating millionaire boyfriend. Cougars, also known as pumas or mountain lions, excel at stalking and ambushing t | |  | | Diamonds in the Dumpster -A Silver Sisters Mystery
In this Silver Sisters Mystery it's trouble at sea when Goldie and Godiva's eighty year old mother and uncle are invied on a relaxing cruise. Magic turns to mayhem for these former vaudeville magicians when a star magician is murdered on board.
It’s trouble at sea when eighty-year old Flossie and Sterling Silver, former Vaudeville magicians, are invited on a relaxing cruise. Goldie’s husband, Captain Red Pepper, has arranged for her mother and uncle to sail on his ship, the Aurora Borealis, and mingle with magicians during the Magic on the High Seas cruise. Goldie thinks it’s a great idea and her twin sister, Godiva, sees it as a chance to keep the old folks out of trouble while she spends time w | |  | | Fatal Encounter
Crystal Reed thought she had met the perfect man. Instead she finds herself entangled in a web of obsessive love and dark secrets, a world that has become tainted by deception and treachery.
When Crystal Reed met Mark Hunter through a casual encounter she though she met the perfect man. Instead she finds herself entangled in a web of obsessive love and dark secrets, a world that has become tainted by deception and treachery. It is a dangerous game of twisted love and betrayal. Faced with the shadows of his past and a burning desire for her own freedom, Crystal tests whether she has the strength to unravel the danger and reclaim her life. What she discovers chills her to the bone. This gripping tale questions the | |  | | Getting Even
Kimberly has gone from a well-paid female executive one minute to a desperate woman the next. Thinking her day can't possibly get any worse, she finds out how wrong she is when she goes home. The only way to set things straight is to get even.
Prequel to the book RIPOFF in the REVENGE IS FUN series.
A delicious tale of revenge.
When Kimberly and the Conned Cougars go after the devious Ryan, he has no idea what is in store for him. VP of Finance, Kimberly | |  | | Incest, Murder and a Miracle
The true story of Cheryl Pierson Cuccio who made headlines in 1986 and her husband Rob Cuccio. Cheryl was abused sexually and physically and Rob died for 43 minutes on Cheryl's 43rd birthday.
Cheryl has appeared on multiple true crime TV shows and given interviews to several newspapers and magazines including People Magazine.
This inspiring—and sometimes shocking—TRUE story is about love, trust, incest, murder and, yes, an actual miracle. The producer of the 2017 Discovery ID TV episode featuring Cheryl Cuccio says, " I laud Cheryl Pierson Cuccio and Rob Cuccio for blazoning their traumatic pasts and valiant love story so that others who | |  | | Murder on the Menu - A Silver Sisters Mystery
Goldie's daughter Chili Pepper leaves the Flirting With Food TV show & moves to Portland Oregon as Executive Chef at a new restaurant. But there is a rash of murders, all in the Pettygrove mansion where she lives with roommates.
Another zany Silver Sisters Mystery. Goldie Silver's daughter Chili Pepper receives a phone call from her high school boyfriend, Roscoe Bean, and a fantastic offer to move to Portland Oregon and become Executive Chef at a new restaurant. Is it worth it for her to leave her career on the Flirting With Food TV show? You bet it is.
 | | No More Crying Angels
TRUE STORY. Bella survived an abusive powerbroker father with organized crime ties, a drug-addicted mother and a physically/sexually abusive brother. Shocking & inspirational. When she couldn't cry, she tattooed a crying angel to cry for her.
When Bella was old enough, she had a crying angel tattooed on her back to cry for her. Bella spent much of her youth in foster homes, rehab facilities and for short periods of time on the street. None of this broke her spirit.
 | | Payback
Revenge is Fun series. Cameron and Kate unravel twists and turns in this clever crime caper. Kim and Kate pay a visit to Cameron in Los Angeles, but never dream they will go undercover to help crack an ingenious drug money laundering scheme.
Can it get any crazier? You bet it can. It’s scams, intrigue, mayhem and murder all over again for the sleuthing trio in this third book in the series..
Join Kimberly, Cameron and Kate as they unravel the twists and turns in this clever crime caper. When Kim and Kate paid a visit to Los Angeles, they never dreamed the three of them would beco | |  | | Ripoff
Who's ripping off the Federal prison system---and how?
A funny crime caper with a diabolically clever scam--Imagine Charlie's Angels starring in 9 to 5 Meets the First Wives Club
Thirty-something Kimberly was living the good life with a great Manufacturing in Federal prisons is BIG business--NEARLY A BILLION DOLLARS a year and that is TRUE! A plan to embezzle millions was going fine until these down-on-their-luck women were hired and red flags went up.
| | Scammed
Revenge is Fun series. Millions of dollars are missing from the Venice Canals HOA and so are the Vice President and Treasurer. Were they kidnapped? Where is the money? Twists galore and a surprise ending with humor along the way.
Life in the upscale Los Angeles area community of the Venice Canals takes an ominous turn when retired doctor Al Shady and his wife Barbara Shady, Vice President and Treasurer of the Venice Canals HOA, disappear after a meeting. The cops are on it, but looking in all the wrong places. What appeared to be home invasion and kidnapping turns out to be so much more including murder. Get ready for characters from different books in this series to come together to dig the dirt. A | |  | | Terror in a Teapot - A Silver Sisters Mystery
When Goldie Silver receives the wrong shipment of antique Russian samovars at her shop in Juneau, Alaska they sell quickly but people begin to die. What makes those tea dispensers worth killing for?
This is the second comical Silver Sisters crime caper in the series. The Silver Sisters Mysteries feature twin Mae West look-alikes, Goldie Silver--an over -the-hill flower child who owns an antique shop in Juneau, Alaska and her sister wealthy, manipulative Beverly Hills advice columnist Godiva Olivia DuBois. Born on different days of different months of different years and even different decades, these twins are as different as Goodwill and Gucci.
Their eighty year old mother and uncle, former vaudeville magicians, love to put on disguises and go undercover to help their gir | |  | | Vanishing Act in Vegas
The third book in the funny Silver Sisters Mysteries series. The twins and their 80 year-old mother and uncle get into trouble sleuthing in Sin City.
Paperback, Kindle, eBook, Audiobook
A fun-filled Silver Sisters escapade in "Sin City"... After Godiva's son Torch buys a condo in Las Vegas, his grandmother Flossie and great uncle Sterling decide to pay him a visit. When the old vaudeville magicians drag him to the Pageant of Peacocks starring sexy Mara the Magnificent it's love at first sight. The romance blossoms but when Torch returns from a meeting in L.A., Mara seems cold and distant. Torch turns to his mother, the advice columnist, for a helping hand. Godiva agrees to check things out during her upcoming trip to Vegas, | |  | | Watson Falls - a small town with a deadly secret
Mack's friends suggested he visit a quaint town in Washington State called Leavenworth, but they had an ulterior motive—a motive that resulted him agreeing to help one of their friends track down her missing sister. That led him to the remote small town of Watson Falls and a situation and people more deadly than he could have ever imagined.
Mack Peters is a self-made millionaire who was once a Los Angeles cop. When his friend suggested a trip to picturesque Leavenworth, Washington, he had no idea it would lead him to the little-known town of Watson Falls, a secret more deadly than he would ever imagine, and a search for a missing investigative reporter.
| | Writers' Tricks of the Trade: 39 Things You Need to Know About the ABCs of
Writers' Tricks of the Trade is like the appetizer table at a writers' buffet, filled with tips, techniques and tricks. Written in easy-to-read prose. Available in paperback, eBook and Kindle from multiple sellers
“Author Morgan St. James has managed to cover nearly everything about writing fiction in a breezy and easilyunderstandable manner. My first thought upon taking a look at Writers Tricks of the Trade was, “Why wasn’t theresomething like this around when I began writing?”
~Marilyn Meredith, author of the Deputy Tempe
Crabtree mystery series.
"No one is born a writer. We all |
|
|
