Skylar in Yankeeland - Hardcover

Mcdonald, Gregory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688141641 ISBN 13: 9780688141646

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1997

Synopsis

Journeying to Boston to study the trumpet, Skylar Whitfield, a charming young Southern hunk, finds himself caught up in the investigation into a lucrative jewel heist and the murder of a young girl from an aristocratic Yankee family

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Skylar Whitfield, a twenty-year-old hunk of Southern manhood, can't help it if he oozes charm and testosterone. After all, he's been doing it all his life back home in Greendown County. But his arrival in Boston looks set to liven up Labor Day weekend just a little too much for his rich Yankee relations' taste.

In fact, what with rape and robbery, looming bankruptcy and near-fatal car crashes, it's almost an anticlimax when a teenage neighbour is found dead on a river bank. Can Skylar, out of his stride here in Yankeeland, act quickly enough to apprehend the killer, or will all that laid-back Southern cool be his undoing?

'Skylar in Yankeeland' teems with action, suspense, charm, laughs, and Southern cool in damp Yankee heat.

PRAISE FOR GREGORY MACDONALD:

'Skylar'

"Filled with zest and charm...A wickedly humorous, whodunit with a style all Macdonald's own".
'Booklist'

"Skylar Whitfield, a country-boy folk hero who mixes Robin Hood's populism with randy sexuality and backwoods smarts".
'Publishers Weekly'

'Son of Fletch'

"Macdonald mixes humour, rage and suspense, in a memorably demented piece of macabre, with farcical finesse".
'Sunday Times'

"It must be the wittiest, twistiest story I've read this years, and consequently very addictive".
Peter Lovesay.

About the Author:

Gregory Mcdonald spent seven years as a writer and editor for the Boston Globe. He is the author of twenty-four books, including nine Fletch novels. He has twice won the Mystery Writers of America’s prestigious Edgar Award for Best Mystery.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0688141641
• ISBN 13: 9780688141646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 275