01489cam a2200289 i 4500 1506254396 TxAuBib 20240820120000.0 210915s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781644450642 164445064X TxAuBib rda Everett, Percival, author. The Trees / Percival Everett. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2021. 308 pages. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive to investigate a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, 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. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives uncover a history that refuses to be buried. 20240820. Murder investigation Fiction. Racism Fiction. Murderers Fiction. Mississippi Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction.