Homestead cabins fly in formation. A private eye wakes up in a motel with his gun missing-in-action. Two philosophical criminals stumble across an isolated desert landscape. Old trailers burn to the dirt and texts arrive from the afterlife. In vintage cars and dark bars, men and women search to find something – anything – to hang onto.

Mojave Crime is a collection of over 80 crime fiction vignettes; short bursts of action, dialogue and violence that make each piece a mini-gem of high desert noir. In the annals of Southern California writing, there’s nothing quite like it.