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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
253 reviews
emmaemooney's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Racism, Murder, and Alcohol
emilyb84's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism, Murder, and Colonisation
emilyanne_5's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Racism and Murder
amaranthine_dragon's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
rachelwilly's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Murder
terrik_409's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Racism and Murder
briandbremer's review against another edition
3.75
The book peters out in the last third, however, consisting mostly of Gran 's interviews with living descedents of the Osage. Those interviews are interesting but they just lack the electricity of the first parts of the book and aren't helped at all by Grann's insistence of inserting himself into the story (something he did in Lost City of Z as well).
Most egregious though is Grann's rather dubious claim of "solving" one of the unsolved murders. Basically, he reads an old FBI file that, paraphrasing, says "We think this guy did it because x but we can't prove it." Then Grann submits nothing but speculation that he FBI already had.
It's a frustrating ending to an important story that needed to be told.
Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, and Violence
crybabybea's review against another edition
I don’t know maybe I’m being a bit too crazy but I just didn’t like the way the story stopped focusing on the Osage and instead focused on the creation of the FBI and the white agents who were involved with the case, especially since the Osage people were such an important part of the case being solved, and especially especially knowing how the police/FBI have completely failed the indigenous communities and MMIW.
I’m also not a true crime fan in general and don’t really care to hear interviews of suspects and details about crime scenes or whodunnit stories, so I just didn’t like this.
Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, and Murder
hannahbee_97's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Death, Racism, Xenophobia, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation
Moderate: Gun violence, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
lysen5972's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Racism, Violence, and Murder