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

10 reviews

caroline_123's review

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Racism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

miggyfool's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

dhelwagen's review

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

First nonfiction book that I’ve read in a while and what a good choice to get  back into the genre. Absolutely heartbreaking story that really makes you think about the history of the US and the dark sides of expansion. The writing and research are well thought out and organized but don’t feel like you’re reading a textbook. You come to know the characters as if they are still alive and grieve for/with them as they pass. Would recommend for anyone trying to get back in to nonfiction or, really, anyone wanting to read a good book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Genocide, Racism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence

thoseoldcrows23's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This case is completely insane and so so heartbreaking. I think non fiction like this is always at risk of being super dry and boring, but Grann tells the story beautifully. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

adam0k's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

jamiejanae_6's review

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racism, Violence, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Drug use, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Deportation

booknerdsinmn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Cultural appropriation, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse and Forced institutionalization

Rampant prejudice against Indigenous people

mccluskyn's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

cait's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

nothingforpomegranted's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Set in Oklahoma atop the underground oil reserve that existed under the Osage territory, this true crime book follows a series of murders that compose a disturbing conspiracy that reigned and raged across the Osage community in the 1920s. A tremendously wealthy community--due in large part to the "headright" system that granted each Osage Native American a share of the oil profits--the Osage suffered a horrific series of mysterious deaths and obvious murders, beginning in 1921 and spanning several years, creating a widespread sense of paranoia and drawing in the nascent FBI. 

I loved the first section of this book, which set the scene and introduced the characters with a wonderful sense of suspense. I was fascinated by this story that I had never heard before, and I didn't want to turn the book off to go to work! However, the subsequent sections were disappointing. The second section, at least nominally, addressed the development of the FBI, as suggested in the subtitle of the book, but I found this part incredibly hard to follow and lacking in detail. Indeed, from the text of the book, it seemed that the FBI existed long before its pursuit of this case, and I didn't entirely understand the connection. The third section of the book was essentially an unnecessarily long Author's Note, reviewing Grann's research and writing process. I love Author's Notes in general, but this was a bit too much and simply established uncertainty regarding the research. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Murder