Skin Dance, A Mystery

Arthur Smukler MD, award winning novelist and author of Chasing Backwards, The Man With A Microphone In His Ear, and the popular blog, Inside the Mind of a Psychiatrist, has written a gripping mystery that will keep you obsessively turning the pages.

He takes you inside the mind of Jake Robb, a forty-one year old Los Angeles psychiatrist, whose personal life is disintegrating as he struggles to accept the fact that his marriage is over. After he spends an evening at Skin Dance, a sleazy strip bar, his empty life is transformed into one of fear and desperation. An unknown stalker, who vows to destroy him, is following Jake’s every move.

From the posh Palos Verdes peninsula, to the downtown strip bars, to the central California coast, Jake must use all the psychiatric skills he can muster to understand and thwart the unknown assailant.

The suspense mounts as we follow the conflict between a deranged killer determined to destroy his prey and a man with inordinate psychological skills who will do whatever it takes to protect himself and his family.