Skylar, Gregory Mcdonald
Skylar, Gregory Mcdonald
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Skylar

Author: Gregory Mcdonald

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/01/2009


Synopsis

Everyone loves Skylar Whitfield, Greendown County's winsome charmer. He has innate sexiness that makes women smile. But he doesn't make his cousin Jonathan smile. Jonathan's a Harvard preppy gracing the South for the first time and he has a hard time with Skylar's penchant for hot summer nights, long-legged women and southern masculinity. Skylar has an equal distaste for Jonathan's presumptions, snobbery and northern propriety.When the county beauty queen, Mary Lou Simes, is found beaten to death with Skylar's pocket knife nearby, Skylar must put his sex-filled mind and incorrigible love of the good life on hold. To find the murderer, he'll have to outwit the dimwitted police - and drag Jonathan along with him.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.

About Gregory Mcdonald

Edgar-winner author of the "acidly funny novels starring the subversive sleuth" known as Fletch and former Boston Globe reporter Gregory Mcdonald, 71, died of prostate cancer in 2008.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff

At times the "southern"-ness of this book gets laid on a little thick, but I suppose that's meant to be part of the joke, and it didn't bother me much. Overall, I enjoyed this book, and look forward to reading more work by McDonald. His style is plain, direct, almost Hemingway-lite with its utilitari......more

Goodreads review by Hans

McDonald created (at least) three quite memorable characters. Fletch, of course, rules the roost, but probably only because he never had to go up against Skylar. Lately when I pick up a mystery, I'm less interested in what was done and who actually done it (sic). What I want to see is who is caught......more

Goodreads review by Willow

I originally started this book almost a year ago and didn't get all that far before abandoning it. I think this was partially just a timing issue. I'm a fan of Gregory McDonald (the Fletch series is a favorite), but this one just started off in a way that I wasn't interested in at the time. After a......more