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2022: An author who takes direct aim at racism and police violence.
The Trees
What you need to know before your trail
The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk.
The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before.The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried.
Travel Guide
Money Mississippi
Money is a small community near Greenwood in Mississippi. It has fewer than 100 residents, down from 400 in the early 1950s when a cotton mill operated there.
“Money, Mississippi, looks exactly like it sounds.”
When there is a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi, two black detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, but they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy and the coroner. Not to mention the racist white locals.
This is a tinderbox of a town. The murders appear to be connected to a dark part of American history, the lynching of black people…..
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Trees
Destination/Location: Money, Mississippi Author: Percival Everett Departure: 1979
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