The Lies We Tell: Suspense with a Dash of Humor (A Letty Whittaker 12 Step Mystery Book 5)

Suspense, Humor, Romance – and maybe a killer or two.

In the wake of several harrowing “adventures,” Letty Whittaker is determined to settle down to a predictable, safe life as a school-based counselor. Of course she’s not expecting to walk in on the high school principal having a most unusual sexual encounter with a masked partner…

So much for “predictable.”

Soon after, the principal is found dead—the victim of an unfortunate accident or something far worse? Who was Perkins’s masked paramour? Was he or she old enough to legally consent to a sexual relationship? More importantly, was someone willing to kill—and keep killing—to keep Perkins’s kinky lifestyle a secret? Letty needs to find out.

So much for “safe.”


Series Order
Book 1: The Enemy We Know Newly recovering alcoholic and psychotherapist Letty Whittaker thinks the client whose campaign of harassment includes threatening to expose her deepest secret is her biggest problem. When the client and Letty’s own boyfriend are murdered and dropped at her feet like a cat’s dead mole trophies, she realizes bad can always get worse.

Book 2: The One We Love After the mysterious death of a colleague, psychotherapist Letty Whittaker “inherits” her friends clients from the local domestic abuse shelter, and makes some disturbing discoveries: stolen files, an AWOL resident, and an unexplained ethics complaint.

Book 3: The Secrets We Keep When psychotherapist and recovering alcoholic Letty Whittaker responds to a middle-of-the-night crisis call, she knows helping Trinnie face her demons won’t be easy. However, instead of finding her friend dead drunk, Letty finds her just . . . dead. And Paul, another close friend, is the primary suspect.

Book 4: The Blood We Spill When her best friend disappears into the depths of a religious cult, Letty Whittaker is forced to cut ties with her safe life and plunge into a world of fanaticism, hypocrisy, and danger.

Book 5: The Lies We Tell Letty Whittaker is anticipating a life of quiet routine with her new job as a school-based counselor. But after she discovers the principal having a most unusual sexual encounter with a masked partner, she’s forced to adjust her expectations. Even more so when the principal is found dead just days later.

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!

"The Enemy We Know is an intriguing, funny, and moving story peopled with characters you will remember long after the last page. If Letty lived in my neighborhood I'd buy her a virgin margarita and talk about all the people we know who are just as odd as we are."

-Lois Greiman, award winning author of Unzipped

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