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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

9 reviews

miggyfool's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Murder, Death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Genocide, Grief, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Sexism, Torture, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, and Violence

dhelwagen's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

First nonfiction book that I’ve read in a while and what a good choice to get  back into the genre. Absolutely heartbreaking story that really makes you think about the history of the US and the dark sides of expansion. The writing and research are well thought out and organized but don’t feel like you’re reading a textbook. You come to know the characters as if they are still alive and grieve for/with them as they pass. Would recommend for anyone trying to get back in to nonfiction or, really, anyone wanting to read a good book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Alcoholism, Drug use, Addiction, Genocide, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence

thoseoldcrows23's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This case is completely insane and so so heartbreaking. I think non fiction like this is always at risk of being super dry and boring, but Grann tells the story beautifully. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Colonisation, Violence, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Police brutality, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Infidelity

adam0k's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Grief, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Genocide, and Racism

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Deportation, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Medical content

booknerdsinmn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Racism, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Misogyny, Child death, Chronic illness, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, and Drug use

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Child abuse

Rampant prejudice against Indigenous people

mccluskyn's review

dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Child death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Gun violence, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Alcohol, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

cait's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Drug use, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Gaslighting, Racism, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Stalking, Violence, Addiction, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Child death, Medical content, Murder, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

nothingforpomegranted's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Set in Oklahoma atop the underground oil reserve that existed under the Osage territory, this true crime book follows a series of murders that compose a disturbing conspiracy that reigned and raged across the Osage community in the 1920s. A tremendously wealthy community--due in large part to the "headright" system that granted each Osage Native American a share of the oil profits--the Osage suffered a horrific series of mysterious deaths and obvious murders, beginning in 1921 and spanning several years, creating a widespread sense of paranoia and drawing in the nascent FBI. 

I loved the first section of this book, which set the scene and introduced the characters with a wonderful sense of suspense. I was fascinated by this story that I had never heard before, and I didn't want to turn the book off to go to work! However, the subsequent sections were disappointing. The second section, at least nominally, addressed the development of the FBI, as suggested in the subtitle of the book, but I found this part incredibly hard to follow and lacking in detail. Indeed, from the text of the book, it seemed that the FBI existed long before its pursuit of this case, and I didn't entirely understand the connection. The third section of the book was essentially an unnecessarily long Author's Note, reviewing Grann's research and writing process. I love Author's Notes in general, but this was a bit too much and simply established uncertainty regarding the research. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Murder, and Toxic relationship