Killers of the Flower Moon tells the incredible story of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe that became extremely wealthy in the 1920s thanks to a farsighted mineral rights deal they made when they were forced off their land. David Grann’s immersive, dark book is partly a gripping true crime thriller about one of the most complex, heinous murder plots in American history, and partly a richly researched chronicle of U.S. law enforcement’s role in Native American oppression. The prose sometimes mimics the breathless news bulletins or frustrated police reports Grann quotes from—and archival photographs deepen the intrigue.
