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The Savage Kind: A Mystery Hardback - 2021

by John Copenhaver

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2022 Lambda Literary Award WINNER in LGBTQ Mystery

Two lonely teenage girls in 1940s Washington, DC, discover they have a penchant for solving crimes--and an even greater desire to commit them--in the new mystery novel by Macavity Award-winning novelist John Copenhaver.

Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled seventeen-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She's lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher, who enthralls them with her passion for literature and her love of noirish detective fiction.

When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows. Frightened, Philippa flees, unsure who the man is or what she's seen. Days later, her teacher returns to school altered: a dark shell of herself. On the heels of her teacher's transformation, a classmate is found dead in the Anacostia River--murdered--the body stripped and defiled with a mysterious inscription.

As the girls follow the clues and wrestle with newfound feelings toward each other, they suspect that the killer is closer to their circle than they imagined--and that the greatest threat they face may not be lurking in the halls at school, or in the city streets, but creeping out from a murderous impulse of their own.

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  • Title The Savage Kind: A Mystery
  • Author John Copenhaver
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pegasus Crime
  • Publication date 2021-10-05
  • ISBN 9781643138091 / 164313809X
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Library of Congress subjects Murder, Teachers
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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  • Library Journal, 10/01/2021, Page 60
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/09/2021, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 10/08/2021, Page 0

About the author

John Copenhaver won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery for Dodging and Burning and the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery for The Savage Kind. He is a co-founder of Queer Crime Writers and an at-large board member of Mystery Writers of America. He cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show. He's a faculty mentor in the University of Nebraska's Low-Residency MFA program and teaches at VCU in Richmond, VA.

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