The Trees Ambrose Bierce New Statesman

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a young woman who speaks in riddles and can never finish her paintings or consummate her affairs

A deadly curse is spreading across Silva Lupi

but where it is

believes she may be cursed—haunted by a spell cast by a seductive artist who once inspired her

The Trees Ambrose Bierce New StatesmanA sharp, unsettling thriller that confronts the enduring legacy of lynching in America. The story begins in Money, Mississippi, where a string of brutal murders shocks the town. When two investigators from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, theyre met with hostility from local officials and townspeople who would rather look the other way. But the case becomes even stranger: every crime scene includes a second corpse, a man who looks