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

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

2017 • 416 pages

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Average rating4.1

15

Fascinating and horrifying view of the long con and cover-up of the Osage Indian murders over oil money and mineral rights in the late 1910s through the 1920s, though unofficially the Reign of Terror extended well beyond that in both directions, since the now-FBI did little to hold anyone accountable and almost all of the investigators, doctors and lawmen involved had their grubby paws in the honeypot. The audio was very good. My only complaint is that I wish the author hadn't switched over to first person for the last quarter or so of the book - it completely took me out of the narrative and irritated me as a former journalism student (don't insert yourself into your story!).

March 22, 2018