<B>An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US by the author of <I>Telephone</I></B><br><br><br><br>Percival Everett's <I>The Trees</I> is a must-listen 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.<br><br><br><br>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. In this bold provocative book Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence. <I>The Trees</I> is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America's pulse.
