Review:  

“Buy this book. This is the good read you are looking for.  A Walk in the Park is a brilliantly crafted novel that shares what life was like at ground zero of the burgeoning cannabis industry and exposes the darkest elements of human nature. All of this, woven around a nuanced, sexy, front-seat perspective to one of the world’s most impressive love affairs. Once you have it in your hands, you won’t want to put it down.”

—Jean Weiss, author and editor, Yoga Journal, Outside, Delicious Living. Women’s Sports & Fitness.

Review:  

"A Walk In The Park - A Cannabis Chronicle Thriller" - By J.A. St Thomas is enthralling while intriguingly thought provoking.  Each character brings a unique diversity to the mix. Entwined romance, adventure and suspense lends appeal to readers of varied genres.

Francine Jaramillo, CBCS for Kurple Magazine

Review:  

“This brilliant romp through the cannabis trade more than recounts the author’s own trials and errors in business. It is the work of a prodigious imagination which has devised a dense thicket of human behavior to illustrate the dynamics of the cannabis culture now. Intentionally OF ITS TIME, the book choreographs many actors’ schemes, dreams, crimes, and general shenanigans to illustrate not only the medical benefits of the increasingly licit substance. The author also moves among the political and legal forces that affect the glamour of cannabis and all those dreamers who surrender to its spell.” 

- Eugenia Parry, author, Adjunct Professor Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico.

Stephanie Beroe returns in this fast- paced, action, Eat the Rich - Eco-Thriller, a classic tale of love and revenge.

“Never plan a murder out loud.” 

The cold words of Stephanie Beroe’s husband carve into her psyche, as she helplessly watches him lose sight of himself and the beautiful life they have created together.

Suffering the constant presence of their billionaire nemesis; throws her Remy over the edge.

Secretly, bent on revenge; concerns turn into obsession, as he arms his wife, and publicly berates the disparities between nuclear waste and cannabis, two substances similarly regulated in an 

off-kilter world, in a nuclear wasteland. When a trail of bodies is left behind , Remy is questioned. When  nuclear- transport trucks start blowing up across the country killing thousands;  Stephanie contemplates whether this is masked hysteria, a terrorist act or simply her man gone over the edge.    

Surrounding herself with a unique friend group that includes a college bestie also from New Jersey, a media mogul, a billionaire’s discarded son, an Egyptian Empire’s, discarded lesbian daughter, an industry scion, and several survivors from the previous year’s incident who all have reasons to be angry. Hiding in Egypt, they all have reasons to seek revenge– but retribution, as Stephanie realizes is a double-edged sword as she weighs out everything, they stand to lose by delivering it. 

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  A delicious, thriller, book III of the Stephanie Beroe Chronicles sheds light on how differences between neighbors and friends, blended with a dose of alienation, duress, and let’s not forget pot, can make you fast friends or make you enemies. 

The world in lock down, schools closed, Stephanie creates a micro-school for her niece in a small hippie town outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Outdoor playdates and housing the group are wonderful new exercises in family, community, sharing food, and friendship; something she desperately seeks during a time of isolation. But what seems like a great idea, becomes a multi-layered recipe for murder that makes her profession in the cannabis industry indelibly pedestrian.

It becomes clear this group of PTA women is dynamic, but maybe not in a good way as a CEO of a ranching family with a vendetta for plant-based, diet enthusiasts, a domineering, Christian missionary from California whose husband is a closet, flat-earth math teacher, a morose, vegetarian, doctor’s wife with a dangerous personal secret, and a militant, vegan momtrepreneur, go into survival mode. The pot boils over when women start turning up stoned and dead, making Stephanie the lead suspect. Inveigled by an irretrievable desire to fit into  “normal society,” a familiar, unyielding tolerance, may be Stephanie’s biggest enemy.

Review:

"Engaging, hilarious and gratifying. I had so much fun reading this book! St Thomas's heroine Stephanie Beroe is flawless."

Debra Bowker, Award winning author of The Dark Paradise Mysteries Series

"Pot Luck, is a zesty literary stew that's part thriller and part social satire. The savvy and unflappable Stephanie Beroe, attempts to solve a serial murder, unfortunately, nothing is what is appears including the upscale PTA moms who are part of the "Micro-school" she has created for her niece during Covid. Written in immaculate, precise prose, "Pot Luck" is as absorbing as it is suspenseful, and full of delicious twists and turns you won't see coming. A thrilling, jaw dropping conclusion will whet your appetite to further misadventures this talented author has in store for her unforgettable heroine. "Pot Luck " is a can't  miss read, a page-turner you need to put on your bookshelf asap."

Iris Dorbian, Business and Arts Journalist (Forbes, Thomson Reuters, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Buyouts) and author of "Next Stop Boston and "Sentenced to Shakespeare.