Percival Everett
Author
Language
English
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Award Winning Adult Fiction
Best Books of 2021 (SCPL)
HPL ALA Black Caucus Literary Awards
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Best Books of 2021 (SCPL)
HPL ALA Black Caucus Literary Awards
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Description
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,...