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

3.0

🌺 🌙 🩸 Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 🩸 🌙 🌺 

A series of murders of the Osage people bring national attention to the newly formed FBI. Can they catch the killer(s) and bring justice to a frightened community?

I read this firstly because last year I read “The Wager” by Grann last year and it was one of my favorite books of the year. Secondly, I wanted to eventually watch the movie. While I enjoyed some aspects of the book, I was widely disappointed that, unlike “The Wager” there was no single through-line narrative in this book.

The first half reads as a murder mystery which I really liked. But then the last half goes into a trial story and later an unraveling of further details the author finds by researching. It’s not that the context wasn’t interesting, it just felt it was somewhat pulled out of order. 

It was a decent read. Faster than I anticipated, but it doesn’t make me very excited to watch the movie to be honest.