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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
5.0
When the Osage moved off of their ancestral land, they believed that America would leave their land alone for at least a little while. But when the Osage found oil on their new land, they decided that they would rent out the land to the people who wanted to mine for the oil. Now several of these business men are looking to cut out the middle man in the most serious sense of the phrase.
I listened to this book as an audiobook. The narrator switched based on the part within the book. I liked the first two narrators but I thought the last narrator was okay. The overall production was done well.
This book was honestly really well written. I loved that the whole first part of the book focused on the Osage and the actual people who were being affected by the murders. I don't typically read a lot of nonfiction but when I do, especially in true crime, it focuses a lot on the criminal and the people who found them rather than the victim. This book doesn't do that at all. The victims are the prime focus of this book with the incredible impact that these murders had on the community being intimately described. The book did also look into the main investigator of the murders. I thought that this was interesting as it related to the aspect of the birth of the FBI being discussed. I think that the third part of my book is my favorite. It talks about the lasting impact of these murders along with the fact that there wasn't a truly simple answer to who murdered the vast amount of Osage that died during this time.
I really recommend this book as it was really interesting and I thought that it was done extremely well.
I listened to this book as an audiobook. The narrator switched based on the part within the book. I liked the first two narrators but I thought the last narrator was okay. The overall production was done well.
This book was honestly really well written. I loved that the whole first part of the book focused on the Osage and the actual people who were being affected by the murders. I don't typically read a lot of nonfiction but when I do, especially in true crime, it focuses a lot on the criminal and the people who found them rather than the victim. This book doesn't do that at all. The victims are the prime focus of this book with the incredible impact that these murders had on the community being intimately described. The book did also look into the main investigator of the murders. I thought that this was interesting as it related to the aspect of the birth of the FBI being discussed. I think that the third part of my book is my favorite. It talks about the lasting impact of these murders along with the fact that there wasn't a truly simple answer to who murdered the vast amount of Osage that died during this time.
I really recommend this book as it was really interesting and I thought that it was done extremely well.