Fighting for Anna: Michele Lopez Hanson 2 — A What Doesn't Kill You Super Series Mystery

For fans of Liane Moriarty, Susan Mallery, and Barbara O'Neal — a Texas country mystery about a house, a dead woman's last wish, and the daughter she never told anyone about.

Michele Lopez Hanson has left Houston. She's parked her Quacker travel trailer on a patch of land in the Texas Hill Country near Burton — the town where Pamela Fagan Hutchins herself lived for years — with her bicycle La Mariposa the Second and her dog Gertrude. She's writing a biography of her elderly neighbor Gidget Becker, a former Houston gallery owner with a past full of Andy Warhol and secrets. Then Gidget dies. Then Michele inherits the house. Then the sheriff's department arrests her for murder.

Gidget — born Anna Becker, of the Wendish community in Serbin, Texas — left a will that mentions a daughter no one knew about. A daughter born in 1975, whose identity is locked in a gun safe someone keeps trying to break into. A gallery partner who claims the estate for an arts trust. A neighbor who insists the land was promised to him. A neighbor woman who visited Gidget the day before she died and lied about it. And in the barn, a 1932 SS 1 Jaguar with a rumble seat that holds a very important painting.

The mystery of who Anna Becker really was — the Wendish schoolgirl who ran away in a red Cadillac, the Houston gallery fixture who hosted Andy Warhol, the woman who wept about her baby when she drank — is also the mystery of who raised a daughter who doesn't know she exists yet. Michele is going to find her. Texas in August has never been hotter.

Fighting for Anna is set in the Texas Hill Country that Pamela Fagan Hutchins knows from the years she lived there.

She inherited a house, a murder charge, a missing daughter, and a Jaguar with a secret in the rumble seat. This is Burton, Texas in August. It always gets hotter before it rains.

This series is Part 4 in the What Doesn't Kill You Super Series.