The second zany Silver Sisters comical crime caper is now available as a Kindle edition on Amazon. Seven Deadly Samovars finds Goldie receiving the wrong shipment of fancy Russian tea dispensers at her antique shop in Juneau, Alaska while her twin, Beverly Hills advice columnist Godiva Olivia DuBois, is in town visiting. She can't reach the exporters, so puts the samovars on display in her shop. They sell quickly but people begin to die. Why? A visit from the bumbling Russian thugs, the Dumkovsky brothers, might hold a clue. The Silver Sisters and their eighty-year-old mother and uncle, former vaudeville magicians, are hot on the trail, trying to prevent more murders! Check out our website for more information.

MORGAN ST. JAMES
www.silversistersmysteries.com
A CORPSE IN THE SOUP - Best Audio Mystery Book 2007-USA BOOK NEWS
SEVEN DEADLY SAMOVARS - Available in Kindle, CD and MP3. Coming soon in paperback.

Well, I finally got around to updating the trailer for A Corpse in the Soup...here it is. I figured now that we are finished with the manuscript for the second book, Seven Deadly Samovars, we really should have a current trailer for Corpse.

Spent lots of time yesterday reserching antique Russian samovars to come up with photos of seven outstanding ones for the pre publication trailer I'll be doing for Seven Deadly Samovars.

That said, here is the new Corpse trailer. You might have to click the PLAY ARROW TWICE.


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NUMBER 8 was A CASE OF NOSY NEIGHBORS by Lori Copeland. I really enjoyed this cozy mystery although I usually don't read "faith based" books.

This centers around a mystery that is not violent, and turns out to be quite funny. The little town of Morningshade is terrorized by peeping toms, one small and one very ugly. Many of the residents report being "peeped". The local constable is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so a crusty 87 year old amateur sleuth starts helping him out with the investigation. Tooling around in a behemoth vintage Cadillac that she hasn't driven in years, her investigation is hilarious and she even catches the mayor violating his own no-smoking policy for the city as he sneaks a cigar.

While her daughter-in-law, Maude, a mystery series writer who is recuperating from having a broken metatarsal and carpal tunnel surgery at the same time, tries to meet a deadline for editing a book, her mother-in-law, the 87 year old sleuth is out at all hours solving the crime and Maude's widowed daughter is dating a womanizing pet hospital owner.

The only thing that struck me as a bit out of sync is that for the first three quarters of the book there was very little included that qualified it as a faith based book and quite frankly the book stood very well without any of those references. The last quarter reverts to a lot of God's guidance, etc. but it was all secondary to the plot. In conclusion, I think Lori Copeland is really a good writer and I will try more of her books.

NUMBER 9.
MOON OVER CHICAGO by J.D. Webb. This book is not out yet. It will be published by Wings e-Press, Inc. and I read it to give J.D. a review. What a fun read. Fulton (Full) Moon is a shoe cobbler like none you've ever seen. He doesn't take kindly to threats and has a contagious curiosity. When a supposedly battered wife comes to him for protection, little does he know that her husband, who owns a flower shop and a multitude of exotic cars as a front is a tough guy with tougher friends. It gets worse and worse, as he is beaten up and his livelyhood in the shoe repair shop, Moonshines, is threatened by the angry husband. The seemingly vulnerable gangster's wife has entrusted him with something that could blow the lid off and when she wants it back, we find out that we shouldn't trust first impressions.

J.D. writes in a funny, tongue-in-cheek style that is reminiscent of 1940's mystery series like Phillip Marlowe. It is a joy from front to back and leaves you wanting to read another of his books.

That's it for now. I'm going to start on #10, THE ENEMY by Lee Child. Time for some action adventure after these two side splitting mysteries.

Meanwhile I'm working on my own writing projects, SEVEN DEADLY SAMOVARS, the second book in the Silver Sisters cozy mystery series...A CORPSE IN THE SOUP is number one, and also working on a much darker novel with a working title of DEADLY DANCE.

MORGAN ST. JAMES
www.silversistersmysteries.com
A CORPSE IN THE SOUP
A Silver Sisters Mystery

How did an advice columnist from Beverly Hills and
an aging hippie from Alaska get into this mess?
Read the first three chapters at www.silversistersmysteries.com
A Silver Sisters Mystery from Wings e-Press...
soon to be an audio book from BOOKS IN MOTION