Literary Las Vegas: Robert Waters

Las Vegas author Robert Waters drew on years of law enforcement work to write “The Case That Would Not Close.” “It is fiction based on real-life involvements of myself and others, with a liberal dose of creative writing,” Waters wrote in his introduction. The book follows a police officer on the graveyard shift in a small California town. When he encounters a young woman moments after her murder, he suspects he saw a truck driven by her killer, and he can’t let the case go, even after he leaves the department. Waters is set to sign books from 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 15 at BooksorBooks, 3460 E. Sunset Road.

Excerpt:

I had worked out a signal with the ones who were most vulnerable, the ones who had cash on hand. As I drove by slowly and all was well, they would wave or keep working. If they scratched their ears, then I knew something was wrong. I would then drive off, radio in for back up and loop back. I would creep up on the building from the side and peer into the window. What happened next would depend on what I saw. A lot of times they had actually been scratching their ears and did not see me. Really! Your safety depends on the man in the marked police car driving in front of your window, and you don’t look up. Oh well. It’s job security.