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

3.75

This has been on my tbr for years and with the movie release, I finally remembered to grab it from the library. It is... Awful. Horrifying. Altogether not surprising. From a composition standpoint, some of the interjections about Hoover and the FBI seemed forced, but guess important. Hard to believe this level of negligence is what started our highest investigation department. Grann documents the Reign of Terror and murder of Osage peoples for decades in the early to mid 20th century, though most of the evidence does not exist due to the depths of corruption at the time. The amount of corruption and gaslighting is nauseating. And yet not hard to believe. Even today there are untold numbers of missing and murdered indigenous women that are not investigated. A necessary read. have also heard that The Deaths of Sybil Bolton by Dennis McAuliffe Jr is very good as well