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AMAZON REVIEW - 4 STARS
"The reader is quick to realize "The Haunting of Leigh Maxwell" is written by a PRO.
Leigh's 7 year separation from the one great love of her life is filled with NOTHING-until the increasing attention of an unwanted, potentially dangerous suitor haunts her days and nights. Psychopathic killers invariably start with animal cruelty and gradually advance to humans. Leigh is very aware of that. With no one to turn to for guidance, Leigh take a huge gulp of pride and seeks out the former love of her life, Mark Hollingsworth-the "taken" Mark Hollingsworth. Deeply suppressed feelings surface when Mark realizes he has to help Leigh and therein lies the groundwork for the cavalry (Mark) to come to the rescue. He arranges for Leigh to get far away from potentially unwanted advances.
"The Haunting of Leigh Maxwell" has a surprise ending to a thoroughly enjoyable story, making you wish it didn't end." - Martin Kaynan
The Haunting of Leigh Maxwell
AMAZON REVIEW - 5 STARS suspense, mystery and a surprise ending
"This book is impossible to ignore, I read it in one day/night and still find myself rereading it over and over. there is so much depth and wisdom to be plumbed, that you will find yourself pondering the many 'hidden', dual mesning/messages for many weeks.
Esther Luttrell is a gifted writer and story teller. Thoroughly well written, delightful to read and very entertaining. I have already re-read this 3 times and have enjoyed it each time. You will not be disappointed reading this book." - Frankey Griffin
Kaw Valley News
October 2014
THE EXTRAORDINARY ESTHER LUTTRELL
By Marsha Henry Goff
Forget Unsinkable Molly Brown of Titanic fame. Esther Luttrell of Topeka has bounced back from adversity more than any ten women and is living her dream of being author, speaker, screenwriter, film producer, director and more. And she has done it all with
a ninth grade education. Forced to leave school and go to work after her father left her and her mother, she began wrapping hog jowls for a supermarket. Because she was smart and motivated, other jobs — including writing radio and TV commercials — soon followed.
After marriages, kids and jobs at CBS and MGM writing scripts, directing, producing and serving as executive assistant to the vice president of MGM-TV, Esther, then 65 and semi-retired, was living in a lovely house in Florida when her husband left her homeless and penniless and launched her on a new career writing mystery novels.
She tells it best on her website: “It was a fluke that I wrote my first novel — at sixty-seven! My husband left me for another woman. His mother. I was driving around, trying to think how to kill him, when it dawned on me I actually had a story plot. I wrote Murder in the Movies, did him in really good, and sent it off to a publisher who
released it eight months later. It's been in print ever since. Harlequin World Wide Mysteries picked it up for paperback release in 2010, which fl attered the daylights out of me. I call it The Little Book That Just Won't Die. Thank you, dear ex-husband, for walking off and leaving me to a surprising and wonderful career as a novelist.”
For a woman accustomed to making lemonade out of life’s lemons, Esther became determined to help others who were grieving after her son Dean’s death. She wrote two books — Between Heaven & Earth and Dear Dean,Love, Mom — about her spiritual journey following his devastating death and her sense that he is guiding
her from beyond.
Esther, the author of 15 published books, has led a remarkably productive life. She is presently excited about a recent venture she describes as “an absurdly silly, funny-as-the-dickens little Florida flick entitled Lithium Springs, which she co-wrote and produced with Carter Lord. She produces screenwriting workshops and is a nationally popular inspirational and motivational speaker. Consider this sentence from her keynote Reboot, Rebuild, Rejoice speech: "When you think you've gone as far as you can possibly go, you'll fi nd you've only pushed yourself to the edge of a new beginning." Esther has had many new beginnings in her life. The world will be a better place if she has a great many more.
