Literary Las Vegas
Author of more than 13 mystery novels, Sharen Skylar doesn't have to look further than her home in Las Vegas for inspiration. Her book "In the Blink of an Eye" explores the gritty world of exotic dancing in a fictional club called the Velvet Lap. When dancers start disappearing, detective Zac Harmon is called in to uncover the club's dark secrets.
Excerpt from "In the Blink of an Eye"
Whatever reason the customers had for coming, the Velvet Lap was at least half full on any given night.
By all accounts, Becca McDonald finished her shift on the ninth and simply ended up dead. The time of death was fixed at less than two hours after she left work. There were no leads to follow. No one knew or saw anything. She had no apparent family. She hadn't been reported as missing. By anyone.
It was -- quite literally -- a dead end!
Not one girl would confide anything to the police, so the detectives figured that the girls had been warned to keep quiet, and the girl were doing exactly that.
