TY  - BOOK
AU  - Copenhaver,John
TI  - The savage kind
T2  - Book one of the Nightingale trilogy
SN  - 164313809X
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pegasus Crime
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Fiction
KW  - High schools
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - High school students
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - Novels
N1  - "A mystery"--cover
N2  - 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 of the school. 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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