Lee Langley

Mystery in the Mojave desert

After an elderly restaurant-owner is struck by a car in remote California, nine narrators take up the story

Late one night, on a dimly lit stretch of highway in a small town in the Californian Mojave desert, an elderly Moroccan has just locked up his restaurant when he’s struck by a speeding car and left for dead. A hit and run. An accident? Or something more sinister? The only witness, a Mexican worker with dubious papers, knows better than to talk to the police.

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