Gregory Mcdonald: Skylar (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
"MCDONALD IS SO SMART, TERSE, AND WITTY THAT HE IS AN OUTRIGHT PLEASURE TO READ." -- Peter Straub
The law, the ladies, the lady-killers, they all want a piece of --
SKYLAR

A rogue and a charmer, everybody loves young Skylar Whitfield -- all the local females, at least. The rest of the adult population of Greendowns County, Tennessee, is split down the middle -- and his preppy Yankee cousin Jonathan downright hates him. And now that the battered-to-death body of Skylar's beauty queen ex-girlfriend has turned up, Sheriff Pepp Culpepper wants to lock the churchgoing Lothario away for good. Since this is one jam he can't sweet-talk his way out of, Skylar will have to take more drastic measures -- which include multiple jail breaks and a potentially lethal intrusion into the real killer's world -- dragging disinclined Jonathan along for the ride... no matter where in Hell it takes them.

"WILDLY ENTERTAINING... MCDONALD IS THE BEST SATIRIST WORKING TODAY, AND THIS IS HIS BEST BOOK." -- Lia Matera, author of Designer Crimes
"FILLED WITH ZEST AND CHARM... A WICKEDLY HUMOROUS WHODUNIT WITH A STYLE ALL MCDONALD'S OWN." -- Booklist

Gregory Mcdonald: Skylar. Some boys have all the luck... HarperCollins, ISBN: 038072524X (January, 1997), 275 p., $5.99.

Gregory Mcdonald: Skylar (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
"Gregory Mcdonald's incomparable dialogue puts his wildly entertaining characters in the same room as the reader. Mcdonald is the best satirist writing today, and this is his best book! I am still laughing over parts of it." -- Lia Matera

Everyone loves Skylar.
Here, in Tennessee country, is the laid-back South, where people really know how to enjoy themselves -- especially Skylar Whitfield. He's Greendowns County's most winsome charmer, and no one can get enough of him -- except Skylar's cousin, Jonathan. A Harvard preppy gracing the South for the first time, Jonathan won't succumb to Skylar's penchant for hot summer nights and long-legged women.

But when it looks like Skylar's the only one who could have killed Mary Lou Simes, the county beauty queen and Skylar's longtime sweetheart, Skylar must put his sex-filled mind and incorrigible love of the good life on hold. If he wants the investigation done right, he's going to have to do it himself -- and drag Jonathan along with him. They are about to see the world in a whole new way.

Gregory Mcdonald heaps this rollicking series debut with enough enchantment and eros to make a naughty girl blush. Uproariously funny, Skylar is fresh, quirky, and so delicately crafted that it is at once painfully suspenseful and sweetly moving.

Gregory Mcdonald: Skylar. William Morrow, ISBN: 0688141633 (July, 1995), 275 p., $22.00.