The Trees

In the small, racially charged town of Money, Mississippi, a series of gruesome murders rocks the community. The victims, all white, are found alongside a second, eerily identical corpse: that of a Black man resembling the tragically murdered Emmett Till. When Mississippi Bureau of Investigation detectives investigate, they face immediate obstruction from local authorities and racist townsfolk. As the bizarre killings multiply, spanning across the country with the same chilling pattern, it becomes clear that something profoundly supernatural and deeply retributive is unfolding. The detectives delve into the past, consulting a local root doctor who has meticulously documented every lynching in America for decades. Percival Everett's 'The Trees' is a searing, genre-bending novel that masterfully blends a page-turning mystery with a biting social commentary, confronting the enduring legacy of racism, violence, and historical injustice in America with unflinching intensity and dark humor.