KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI) By David Grann Vintage Books 321 pgs We discovered this book several years on sale at a local Costco and were fascinated by the title. Reading the back cover blurbs was enough to intrigue us into purchasing it. Never mind that added subtitle concerning the early years of the FBI, of which we confess to knowing very little other than what we’d seen in films and on TV. So the book sat, like so many others, on our To-Read-Shelf while we continued to plow through our usual fare of high-octane action and adventure pulp fiction titles. Then we learned that the book with the odd name had been optioned by the film studios and was to be adapted for the silver screen by the note director Martin Scorsese. That was more than enough to turn up the curiosity factor and we finally sat down to read “Killers of the Flower Moon.” In the early 1920s rich oil deposits were discovered in Osage County, Oklahoma; beneat