Paperback “Killers of the Flower Moon” by D. Grann

The Osage Murders and the Beginning of the FBI. 

National Book Award Finalist

A New York Times Notable Book

A Best Book of the Year

The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, GQ, Newsday, Vogue, The Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Slate, Time Magazine, NPR

"Riveting.. Grann has proved himself a master of spinning delicious, many-layered mysteries that also happen to be true... It will sear your soul."

-Dave Eggers, The New York Times Book Review

"Grann tells the story of the Osage investigation with a Dashiell Hammett-like gift for suspense. Killers of the Flower Moon is a marvel of detective-like research and narrative verve."

-Financial Times

Cover design by John Fontana

Cover images: background sky © Richard Smith/ Alamy; oil rig© Oscar Williams/Dreamstime.com; car courtesy of Raymond Red Corn

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured cars and lived in mansions.

Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed. Mollie Burkhart watched as her family became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. Other Osage were also dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who investigated the crimes were themselves murdered.

As the death toll rose, the case was taken up by the newly created FBI and its young, secretive director, J. Edgar Hoover. Struggling to crack the mystery, Hoover turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White, who put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent. They infiltrated this last remnant of the Wild West, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.