Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia, Jon Lindstrom, Joe Ochman

Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

The New York Times best seller and National Book Award finalist Killers of the Flower Moon is now adapted for young listeners.

This book is an essential resource for young listeners to learn about the Reign of Terror against the Osage people - one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, thanks to the oil that was discovered beneath their land. Then, one by one, the Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances, and anyone who tried to investigate met the same end.

As the death toll surpassed more than 24 Osage, the newly created Bureau of Investigation, which became the FBI, took up the case, one of the organization's first major homicide investigations. An undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau, infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Working with the Osage, they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

In this adaptation of the adult best seller, David Grann revisits his gripping investigation into the shocking crimes against the Osage people. The book is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward Native Americans that allowed the murderers to occur for so long.

©2021 David Grann (P)2021 Listening Library

Critic reviews

"An eye-opening, challenging, and thoroughly sourced saga that will open the door to many necessary conversations." (Booklist, starred review)

"A young readers treatment that is just as imperative and enthralling as its parent text." (School Library Journal, starred review)

"There is no shortage of jaw-dropping information in Killers of the Flower Moon. Grann entices younger readers with a mystery worthy of fiction and grips them with a thriller." (Shelf Awareness, starred review)

Outstanding

A marvelous, telling of a cruel story. This is a story that everyone should hear. Excellent!

very good book

very well told book we'll ridden audio biography, good to listen to, narrative was good.

makes you mad

Native Americans have been treated poorly since the beginning, it hasn't changed. Most people think it has changed but it hasn't. When I was a Senior in High School we were told any minority wanting to sign up for a scholarship to go to a certain class room I went there was 5 black kids me and Mexican kids the teacher spoke Spanish the entire time then dismissed all of us, I didn't get a scholarship and neither did the the black kids that was in 1970. The books says how bad things are and its just the icing on the cake. They are still being taken advantage of. Burial lands dug up. The Smithsonian has hundreds of Native American bones that have been taken over the years and never returned to tribal burial sites. How would you like it if your mom was dug up and never returned to where you buried her and without your permission as was done so many years ago. Now they have to call a Native Shaman if bones are suspected and if it's reported. If it's a major building site the bones will be removed. How would you feel about your family being dug up and relocated and hopefully intact and without being their to say goodbye again?

Heartbreaking and Real

This book is an important read for anyone who lives in the US. The narrator changed halfway through and that was weird.

Must read

There is so much important host in this book. It is a must read for everyone that wants the truth on how this country was built. It’s so important to know our true history so we can prevent the ugly from happening again. This is a must read!!

True Oklahoma History

Sad. Awesome to have the story brought to light. The level of evil that people are willing to go to in this world is astounding.

Good story of bad business

Interesting how today’s FBI bad actors are nothing new! Seeped in history, this story illustrates how the FBI is not what most Americans thought it was or is!

nice historical markers

the narrorator, does okay
Easy to follow stories
if you're really listening
don't walk away

Thorough and Insightful Storytelling

I am an adult, and I chose the young readers version because history books are tok hardcore for me. However, this rendition was perfect and highlighted the atrocious events that happened in Osage County and Oklahoma. I highly recommend this version!

So many pieces of ‘history’ which are buried.

Thank you for enlightening me. Of course I had no idea, and neither did my peers when I asked if they are/were aware. I know these people who committed these horrors will be held accountable…perhaps not in this life, but a higher judge will deal with them.