{"product_id":"the-savage-kind-a-mystery-9781643138091","title":"The Savage Kind: A Mystery","description":"\u003cb\u003e2022 Lambda Literary Award WINNER in LGBTQ Mystery\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTwo 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilippa 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Copenhaver \u003c\/b\u003ewon the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery for \u003ci\u003eDodging and Burning\u003c\/i\u003e and the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery for \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Kind\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pegasus Crime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613638037778,"sku":"9781643138091","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_15c26f61-6d2d-4b54-9470-910497a043f6.jpg?v=1732412238","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-savage-kind-a-mystery-9781643138091","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}