Going for Kona
Michele Lopez Hanson 1 — A What Doesn't Kill You Super Series Mystery

For fans of Emily Giffin, Liane Moriarty, and Harlan Coben — a Houston romantic mystery with a triathlete heroine training toward the hardest race of her life and the truth about her husband's death.Michele Lopez Hanson is a Houston attorney and journalist who trained for triathlons with her husband Adrian. Then Adrian was killed in a hit-and-run while cycling in Houston, and Michele committed on live television to finishing the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii in his honor. She has a knee injury. She is going to Kona.She also has a stalker. Adrian mentioned a white Ford Taurus in the days before he died — a car that keeps appearing near her house, on her training roads, at the funeral. The police aren't interested. Her sixteen-year-old son Sam has a suspicious hole in his alibi. And Michele is an attorney who is also her son's counsel, training alone in the dark before dawn because it's the only time she can still feel Adrian near her.When she swims, his hands guide her through the water. On the Kona lava fields, when her chain snaps at mile 62, a woman with green eyes materializes from the race crowd with exactly the right part and 'RIP AH' written on her leg. She fixes the chain, tells Michele to fly strong, and vanishes. This will not be the last time Michele sees her.Pamela Fagan Hutchins lived for many years in Houston and Burton, Texas — exactly where this series is set — and competed enthusiastically (if not quickly) in real triathlons with her husband, who is alive and well. The training details, the Houston roads, the Kona heat: she earned them. Going for Kona is the first Michele Lopez Hanson novel.She trained in the dark so she could hear him. She raced so she could keep him. She finished the Ironman because that is what a clawed butterfly does.The Michele Lopez Hanson series is Part 5 in Hutchins' What Doesn't Kill You Super Series.