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A review by biblioauds
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
And just when you think it can't get worse.. it does.
Not Grann's story, however. His writing expertly navigates the Osage Murders in a capturing narrative, delving not just into the cases themselves, but the entire culture of the killing of Native Americans. The Osage Murders, though credited to one person, actually reveals that there's not too much anomaly in the evil that persisted throughout the 1900s in Western America. Grann not only tells this story from the viewpoint of the investigators, but also from the Osage tribe, and their grandsons and granddaughters that still bear the weight and fear of not knowing the truth.
I just couldn't put this book down, I thought about it every moment I wasn't reading it. I've never even had any interest in the "Wild West" stories until now, knowing that this uncovers a lot of the glitz and glamor of the oil rush, as well as depicts its downfall.
Not Grann's story, however. His writing expertly navigates the Osage Murders in a capturing narrative, delving not just into the cases themselves, but the entire culture of the killing of Native Americans. The Osage Murders, though credited to one person, actually reveals that there's not too much anomaly in the evil that persisted throughout the 1900s in Western America. Grann not only tells this story from the viewpoint of the investigators, but also from the Osage tribe, and their grandsons and granddaughters that still bear the weight and fear of not knowing the truth.
I just couldn't put this book down, I thought about it every moment I wasn't reading it. I've never even had any interest in the "Wild West" stories until now, knowing that this uncovers a lot of the glitz and glamor of the oil rush, as well as depicts its downfall.