PART 1 — The Circle in the Parking Lot
Mall Parking Lot Biker Mystery started on a bright afternoon in a suburban shopping center outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, where nothing unusual ever seemed to happen. The Redfield Plaza Mall parking lot stretched wide and sunlit under the late summer sky, rows of vehicles reflecting sharp flashes of light while families moved lazily in and out of the sliding glass entrances carrying bags of clothes, toys, and food court leftovers. It was the kind of ordinary scene most people barely noticed — the hum of engines, the scrape of shopping carts across pavement, the distant chatter of teenagers drifting toward the movie theater side of the building.
