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From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 NY Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about probably one of the most monstrous crimes in American history

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members from the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was uncovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured cars, constructed mansions, and delivered their children to review in Europe.

Then, one at a time, the Osage started to become killed off. The category of an Osage female, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her family members had been shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe begun to die under secret circumstances.

In this last remnant of the Crazy West-where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the “Phantom Terror,” roamed-many of these who dared to investigate the killings had been themselves murdered. As the loss of life toll climbed to a lot more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was among the organization’s first major homicide investigations as well as the bureau terribly bungled the situation. In desperation, the youthful director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Tx Ranger called Tom White colored to unravel the mystery. White come up with an undercover group, including among the just American Indian providers in the bureau. The providers infiltrated the region, struggling to look at the latest methods of detection. Alongside the Osage they started to expose perhaps one of the most chilling conspiracies in American background.

In Killers of the Bloom Moon, David Grann revisits a surprising series of crimes in which lots of people were murdered in cold blood. Based on many years of study and startling new evidence, the publication is a masterpiece of narrative non-fiction, as each part of the analysis reveals some sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward American Indians that allowed the murderers to use with impunity for such a long time. Killers of the Bloom Moon is completely powerful, but also emotionally devastating.