Hatch, Morgan: - Having taught in the LA public schools for the past thirty years, Morgan now writes about the people and places he has come to know from his career in education. During the pandemic, he published a short story which became the genesis of Gone To Ground, and soon after, a string of scandals emerged involving public officials and developers which became the inspiration for George Jones. Add to this the more prosaic LA issues of homelessness, crime, and the bullet-train-to-nowhere, and you have the basic elements of Morgan's debut suspense novel. Morgan lives in Los Angeles with his wife where he's trying to learn his mother-in-law's recipe for dal dhokli.