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The Trees

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The Trees

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
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An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone

Percival Everett's The Trees 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.

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. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America's pulse.

©2021 Percival Everett (P)2022 Tantor Crime Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Fiction Murder Witty Social justice Suspense Detective Mississippi
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Money is the epicentre of a series of white murders linked to historical lynchings/ murders.

Series of murders rocks America

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Wow! This book is phenomenal in idea and execution.
A contemporary novel set during Trump's first term, starts with a mysterious and brutal murder in Money, Mississippi: a small racist town in the arse end of nowhere. After a body goes missing and another similar brutal murder occurs, two detectives from the MBI are sent to help with the investigation.
The two detectives: Jim and Ed are Black, and so are not only struggling with a police force that doesn't believe they need any help to solve the murders but with a whole town that doesn't like anyone that isn't White. This book has some really horrific and brutal murders in it and tells the story of the history of lynching in America. Despite the dark and heavy themes, this books is also very funny! Ed and Jim are very sarcastic and a dry wit runs throughout every page of this piece of essential literature.

Unbelievably dark, but somehow funny!

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Everett is caustic, satirical and brilliant.
This is my first experience of his work.. where the hell have I been?

Superb

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Not sure how I feel about this novel. Bits I loved, some made me laugh out loud and some made me feel very uncomfortable.
But overall definitely worth a credit.

Thought provoking and disturbing

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James, by Everett, is the best thing I've read for a long while, This is astonishing, Making people laugh in a narrative about a lynching? It's elegaic and angry and gorgeously written.

A punch in the gut piece of brilliance

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