Gregory Mcdonald: Skylar in Yankeeland (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
"ONE OF THE BEST WRITERS WE HAVE." -- The New York Times
Skylar go home!
A rogue and a rascal -- the trumpet playing, lady-killing toast of Greendowns County, Tennessee -- Skylar Whitfield's talented lips have won him the affection of many a local belle. Now they've won him a scholarship to a prestigious Northern music school -- which is what brings young Skylar into the home of his snooty Boston Brahmin relatives, where he is decidedly not welcome. Perhaps their disdain has something to do with the disappearance of five million dollars-worth of family "gembobs" on the very night he arrives. Or his amorous effect on some of the Beantown females, whose explicit fantasies could have dire consequences for the visiting country cousin. And, of course, there's the murder that Skylar seems involved in up to his Dixie neck...

"A PAGE-TURNER... SATURATED WITH MCDONALD'S FINE SENSE OF SOCIAL PRETENSIONS AND AS DARKLY HUMOROUS AS ANYTHING HE HAS WRITTEN, SKYLAR IN YANKEELAND TAKES NO PRISONERS." -- People
"FUNNY, SEXY, AND CHARMING, SKYLAR IS A WINNER." -- Booklist

Gregory Mcdonald: Skylar in Yankeeland. Southern charm can get a boy in a heap of trouble... Avon Books, ISBN: 0380725258 (January, 1998), 247 p., $5.99.

Gregory Mcdonald: Skylar in Yankeeland (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
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.

Gregory Mcdonald: Skylar in Yankeeland. Collins Crime, ISBN: 0002326000 (August, 1997), 274 p., £14.99.

Gregory Mcdonald: Skylar in Yankeeland (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
It's Labor Day weekend, and Skylar's just arrived at his rich relations' in Yankeeland. Very upper-crusty, Hahvahd types all around, and proper proper proper. There's all this land but no animals, all these trappings but not a lot of heart. One thing's no different, though - crime, which social class isn't above. Only problem is, when some very valuable jewels disappear, folks start pointing the finger at Skylar. He tries to shake these accusations off, but when a thirteen-year-old rich girl turns up murdered, Skylar's got no choice but to get down and find some real answers fast.

Gregory Mcdonald: Skylar in Yankeeland. William Morrow, ISBN: 0688141641 (January, 1997), 275 p., $23.00.