Killers of the Flower Moon
- 352
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 125 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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Our view
Grann reconstructs the Osage murders with a researcher’s patience and a crime novelist’s pacing. That has won over some readers who rarely pick up nonfiction. The account of how the case shaped the early FBI is as absorbing as the killings themselves. It is a dark read, a story of greed turned against a whole community, and its weight comes from the fact that all of it happened.
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About the book
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is a 2017 nonfiction book by American journalist David Grann about the Osage murders. Time magazine listed it as one of its top ten nonfiction books of 2017.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 846 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 85% of the weight and the score stays at 8.3 — the Rankings average of 8.2 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 27 | 3% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 5 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 814 | 96% |
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