The Skinny: A Stan Kaminski Mystery

The Skinny: A Stan Kaminski Mystery

Stan Kaminski is a Polish immigrant getting by on odd jobs and inside connections, the kind that keep him close to the city’s underbelly but just out of reach of real trouble. When a wealthy businessman offers him a job—finding a missing woman—Stan figures it’s easy money. But the deeper he digs, the more it’s clear that this isn’t just another runaway case. As Stan navigates his way through the city's darkest secrets to find the troubled Charmaine, every clue pulls him further into a world of high society excess, underground crime, and whispers of a serial killer preying on the lost. As the bodies pile up and the truth unravels, Stan is forced to make a choice: follow the money, save Charmaine, or make it out alive. For fans of gritty noir, true crime, and the raw, electric pulse of 1990s New York, The Skinny is a razor-sharp thriller that won’t let go. “Classic New York Noir … a real nail biter to keep you awake at night!” --John Glatt, Tangled Vines, The Family Next Door "Harold Goldberg’s love letter to noir, and all that is ungentrified in New York City, dashes along from first page to last under a head of steam that never flags. The Skinny is a book about flawed, vulnerable people that is by turns open-hearted and wised-up. Its twists are unexpected, its ending lands just right." --Christopher Byrd, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books Harold Goldberg is a columnist for The New York Times. He is co-author of the nonfiction book My Life Among the Serial Killers and the narrative history, All Your Base Are Belong to Us (How 50 years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture). He is a three-time NYC Emmy Award nominee and has won the Western Publisher's Award for Best Feature Story and the New York Videogame Critics Circle Award for Best Book. He lives in New York City.