Searching for Dime Box: Michele Lopez Hanson 3 — A What Doesn't Kill You Super Series Mystery

For fans of Liane Moriarty, Ann Cleeves, and Barbara O'Neal — a Texas mystery about babies dying, a drug operation hidden in plain sight, and a lawyer who can't stop saying yes when she should say no.

Michele Lopez Hanson is a pro bono attorney in Lee County, Texas, a journalist finishing a biography, and the grandmother of a very small baby named Charlie. She has a new limestone house in Nowheresville, a growing attraction to aquaponics expert Rashidi, and a strict policy of not getting involved in murder investigations. This policy is not going well.

When Michele arrives with her client Donny at a rural house in Sweet Home, Texas and finds an infant dead in her crib, she starts asking questions and can't stop. The babysitter Tess was also present when a second baby died. Charlie has been mysteriously sick twice after spending time with Tess. And Michele's drug trafficking client Claude Williams keeps showing up in places that connect the dots in ways that make her very uncomfortable.

Meanwhile: a prize bull is dying of unexplained 'heart failure' at the H-Bar-U ranch, a drug evidence bag has disappeared from the Lee County evidence room, a woman named Wanda Moon is wanted for questioning and cannot be found, and Sam has been arrested for drug possession in Brenham. Set in Lee County, Giddings, Sweet Home, and Dime Box, Texas, small towns Pamela Fagan Hutchins knows from years of living in that corner of the state.

A drug drop point called a dime box. A baby who didn't have to die. A grandmother who is too curious for her own good and too stubborn to stop. This is Lee County, Texas. Everyone knows everyone. That's the problem.

The Michele Lopez Hanson series is Part 5 in the What Doesn't Kill You Super Series.