The Trees

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Across
  1. 3. What someone -- or something -- is after
  2. 7. Beyond natural explanation -- like the murders in The Trees
  3. 10. The central societal issue present in this novel
  4. 11. What keeps happening to the dead
  5. 13. Item related to lynching
  6. 14. Jim and Ed's employer
  7. 15. Possible Motive for the killings
  8. 16. Name of novel by Percival Everett
  9. 17. City in California also tied to the murders
  10. 21. White supremacist group often referenced in this novel
  11. 23. A lot of this seems to go missing around crime scenes around Mississippi
  12. 24. What festers beneath the surface of Money, Mississippi
  13. 25. 105 Year old woman who documented almost every lynching in America
  14. 27. Killings by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
Down
  1. 1. Nosy sheriff who meddles but always misses the point
  2. 2. Racist descendant of Till’s accuser
  3. 4. Based on Carolyn Bryant who was the person who accused Emmett Till and eventually got him Lynched
  4. 5. Item often found around victim's necks and around crime scenes
  5. 6. The literary style of this book
  6. 8. Black detective from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation
  7. 9. White man tried for a notorious 1955 Mississippi killing
  8. 12. The main setting for this novel
  9. 18. How the murders spread from just Mississippi to all over
  10. 19. The overall tone or mood of this novel
  11. 20. Real life teenager who was lynched in Chicago
  12. 22. A place where bodies are supposed to stay -- but don't
  13. 26. Fictional town in Mississippi where the killings start