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Percival Everett: The Trees: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize: a novel [2022] paperback ZCURA a missing security badgeThe 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