Damn Yankee - You Ain’t From Around Here

Clyde Cook came to Sparta, Tennessee, looking for a fresh start. Instead, he found a missing woman, a forty-eight-year-old secret, and a town where everybody knows everybody-except who can be trusted.At sixty-four, Clyde has a past he doesn’t hide, a career diploma in private investigation he never expected to use, and the kind of New York attitude that doesn’t always translate politely below the Mason-Dixon line. Around Sparta, that earns him a nickname fast: Damn Yankee.When a frightened woman asks him to look into her sister Emily’s disappearance, Clyde intends to ask a few questions and stay out of trouble. Then the questions lead to suspicious land deals, duplicate invoices, a long-abandoned quarry, an old warehouse fire, and some of the most powerful families in the county.Someone wants Clyde to stop digging.That only makes him dig harder.With sharp-witted diner waitress Roxy at his side and a growing cast of locals who may be allies, enemies, or both, Clyde follows a trail of corruption stretching across generations. But finding the truth means confronting more than crooked officials and buried secrets. It means deciding whether a man can ever truly outrun his past-or whether the things he survived are exactly what prepared him for what comes next.Part mystery, part crime thriller, and part fish-out-of-water dramedy, Damn Yankee: You Ain’t From Around Here launches a new series about second chances, small-town secrets, Southern loyalties, and one stubborn New Yorker who came to Tennessee to start over-and stayed long enough to become everybody’s problem.