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The One We Love: Suspense with a Dash of Humor (A Letty Whittaker 12 Step Mystery Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Donna White Glaser (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 988 ratings
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Who is killing the women of Devlin House? Following the death of a co-worker, psychotherapist Letty Whittaker learns she has “inherited” her colleague’s case load. As professional executor, Letty assumes the care and responsibility of Regina’s clients, including those from Devlin House, the local domestic abuse shelter where Regina had worked... and mysteriously died. When Letty takes up her duties, she makes some disturbing discoveries, including a set of files from the shelter that Regina had stolen and secreted away. Do the files—or the abused women they represent—have anything to do with Regina’s death? What about the shelter resident and her young son, missing since the morning after the discovery of Regina's body? Are they on the run from an abusive husband/father... or someone even more dangerous? Then there's the ethics complaint Regina made shortly before she'd died. Who did she report? And why? Most importantly? Just what kind of trouble did Letty really inherit? The Letty Whittaker 12-Step Mystery series—edge-of-your-seat suspense sprinkled with laugh-out-loud moments. Fans of humorous mystery writers Janet Evanovich, Carl Hiaasen, and Harlan Coben have fallen in love with this wise-cracking amateur sleuth. Think: love child of Stephanie Plum and Alex Delaware after a wild night of Twister and tequila shooters. Don’t miss this funny mystery series!
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About the Author

Donna White Glaser is the author of The Letty Whittaker 12 Step Mystery series. Like her main character, Donna is a psychotherapist and lives northwestern Wisconsin. As if that weren't enough, she and her husband own a residential construction company where it's Donna's job to deal with any overly emotional, what-do-you-mean-you-can't-put-roof-trusses-up-in-a-thunderstorm? clients. Strangely enough, she often comes up with ideas for creative murders and hiding bodies during business hours. Currently she is at work on the fifth Letty Whittaker 12 Step Mystery-THE LIES WE TELL. Donna would love to hear from you via her website at donnawhiteglaser.com or on Twitter: @readdonnaglaser.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008ZG9K4S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ White Stone Press (August 17, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 17, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2620 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 355 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 988 ratings

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I'm a psychotherapist/office manager/writer, not always in that order. Some folks wonder why a therapist would gravitate toward writing mysteries. It's the people thing. Both of my passions deal with relationships and exploring the past to gain a deeper understanding--and, perhaps, better control of--the present. My favorite quote is by Oscar Wilde: "The final mystery is oneself." It seems to cover facets of both my careers. So I stole it.

I'm also a wife and a mother of two beautiful children. Three, if you count the husband; usually I do. We own and operate a residential construction company. He swings the hammer; I do the marketing, the paperwork, and deal with any overly emotional, what-do-you-mean-you-can't-put-roof-trusses-up-in-a-thunderstorm? clients. Strangely enough, I often come up with ideas for creative murders and hiding bodies during business hours. I mention this for no reason at all.

Currently I’m at work plotting the sixth Letty Whittaker 12-Step Mystery and polishing the second in the Blood Visions series, SCRY ME A RIVER. I’d love to hear from you! www.donnawhiteglaser.com .

I'm hoping to earn enough money to provide orthodontics for my English bulldog, Belle.

Happy Reading,

Donna

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molly doerr
5.0 out of 5 stars more than that
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2024
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Suspense and humor, yeah,but more than that. Little truisms peak out about our relationship to food, drink, friends and relatives, even the furry kind. The Letty Whittaker mystery books are sink down in your bed, chair or other reading place, and escape to a world that you recognize and makes you smile, frown in surprise and suspense, and sigh at the fairly happy ending. Then you’ll want to start on the next one. What could be better?
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Helene Stephens
4.0 out of 5 stars Three & A Half Stars - for - The One We Love
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2014
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This book had a rather good plot, interesting characters, and was easy reading with the humor and light voice of Letty, the 1st person narrator.

I would probably have given this a 4-star rating except for a few issues that proved annoying ... such as the constant references to "folders" as Letty repeatedly researches through records of the women at the center. She'd find a few folders that had been taken out of one center (which should never have been done) ... she'd make copies of folders, and compare the information line-by-line with another copy of the same folder; she'd scrutinize the coded initials within folder entries, she'd note how folders were sticker-marked. She'd need a "watcher" as she went through folders, and just when you think you're done with the folders already, another one pops up mid-story. Maybe this was necessary, but for me, it felt a bit tedious and made the book seem overly long. (I'm thinking that less pages of folder-descriptions would have accelerated the plot, which seems quite actionless for a while.)

Another annoying issue was that the book made mention of action that occurred in a prior book of the series. I had no idea that this was the 2nd book for Letty, and some other reviewers have commented on this as well. There are references to events and characters, including a very strong love interest for Letty, that get some time in the author's pages, so this book is not quite a stand-alone. (Although not always, I generally prefer to read series books in order to avoid having an earlier book interject itself into the one that I am reading.)

Still, I definitely enjoyed the book and agree with others that it is a "page turner" and hard to put down. The main character of Letty has a lot of charm, an engaging narrative voice, and she applies just the right amount of humor to keep things interesting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good mystery
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2024
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Another good one. I evolved plot that keeps you guessing. Plenty of humor to enjoy throughout. The ending was packed with twists and turns.
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Bonibolee
3.0 out of 5 stars whodunit
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2014
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Ok, I didn't figure it out and who I thought did it, didn't. Guess that adds up to a pretty good mystery. I must say, the main character sure has to pee a lot! I'm going to move back before I move forward. It seems likes I started out with the second story in the series and unlike most books where they kind of bring you back a bit in order for you to understand what's going on, this one just tantalizes the reader with brief comments about previous happenings in her past. Curiosity has gotten the better of me and I'm looking forward to reading them all!
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lostintheswamp
4.0 out of 5 stars A fun and easy read
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2014
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Plenty of other reviewers have given the bones of the story so I won't repeat that. I try to select a few more light hearted mysteries for those times when I just can't deal with an overload of doom and despair, and this book worked well for me. I didn't guess whodunnit, but I never really try. That said, this is a good mystery with a some very decent laughs in it. It's not often that the written word makes me laugh out loud, particularly in books about murder, however mightily some authors try, but I have to confess that I did laugh out loud a few times in this book. I also get tired of detectives - police, private investigator, or civilian types, who are alcoholics, but in this book the topic is treated lightly enough not to overwhelm the story and best of all, it's not filled with groaning self pity or whining. Letty, a psychologist, is believable, though I found some of the other characters who were employees at the women's shelter to be somewhat less believable - too many uber-intense characters under one roof, perhaps. But I still enjoyed it for being a good mystery, with some genuine laughs. I got the book for free and asked myself if I would have been happy had I paid for it. The answer is, yes, but maybe not if I had to pay full price.
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Rosebud Book Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars The Future Is Here
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2014
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I have been reviewing books for several years and have over 80,000 hits on my web site from all over the world. At first I would get the self-published, digital books regular reviewers disdained. And many were poorly written and self-indulgent. But now these types of books have gotten better and better. They present real people in real places, giving insight into subjects all around us that big, established New York and California publishers are not bothered with. It would take an author twenty years to get published there and those that did followed formulas of what had sold before.

Here is a book that takes place in Northern Wisconsin. That gives behind the curtain dynamics between real people at a clinic and at a shelter for abused women. The narrator is a former alcoholic trying to come to terms with the second and third steps of that program. The future is here. Writing is here and now.

There are real politics and tension. I felt I got to know and appreciate an over-worked (and over-stressed) staff, the psychology of why an abused woman goes back to her painful relationship. Plus there are some scenes that took me into trailer parks and barns I have often driven past and wondered about. Plus there’s a very moving comparison of the narrator as a child to the boy hidden in stacks of hay. Through this book I have come to more fully understand the abused, alcoholics, those who try to help them and how difficult this all is.

This is the kind of book I want to review. This is the kind of book you should read.

- J. Lehman, www.RosebudBookReviews.com
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Sarah Stuart - Readers' Favorite Reviewer
5.0 out of 5 stars The title says it all! Donna White Glaser delivers, brilliantly.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2017
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Letty Whittaker, who is working to become an ex-alcoholic, is attending Rebecca’s funeral and feeling guilty. Letty feels guilty a lot and her conscience drives her remorselessly into trouble. This time it’s about Rebecca: Letty feels she should have liked her; she saved her life. Told that Rebecca has appointed her, a mere two weeks before, as executer of her will, leaving her responsible for cases at the psychotherapy clinic where they worked together and those at a refuge for battered women, guilt refuses to allow Letty to opt out. Hampered by lack of access to files, suspect files, and refusals to answer her questions by the refuge boss and her staff, Letty becomes convinced that Rebecca’s “accidental death” was no accident, but why, and who murdered a woman whose mission in life was to help others?

Humour, in the hunt for a killer? Yes. Writing that is never clichéd: consider this: “She came in like Wisconsin winters: deceptively serene, potentially fatal.” And so many red herrings it is impossible to guess “whodunit” left me reading happily for days. The other Letty Whittaker books are on my TBR list.
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Sandi
5.0 out of 5 stars Well Done!
Reviewed in Canada on September 5, 2014
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I enjoyed the book. Well written and made me want to continue reading till it was finished. I especially appreciate the fact that this series of books does not contain a lot of foul language. Bits of humour added to the enjoyment of the book. I will continue to read this series of books.
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Kimmay60
5.0 out of 5 stars Letty saves the world again
Reviewed in Australia on September 21, 2014
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Ms White Glaser has done it again. I don't want to give anything away but the books are enjoyable to read and I love Letty I just wish her personal life didn't suck :)
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Orith Cunningham
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in Canada on May 8, 2015
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part of a good series - i hope she writes more of the same
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HG
4.0 out of 5 stars Not Evanovich, a LOT better.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2015
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Likening this writer to Janet Evanovich does her a great disservice. I've never actually managed to finish an Evanovich book, as they are slow, boring and think they're funnier than they are, but I'm onto my third in this series. Very good. Not great literature, but who wants that when you're settling down for some escapism?
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