Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI Grann David (2023)

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction and the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, this true-life murder story became one of the FBIs first major homicide investigations. In the 1920s, members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma were among the richest people in the world per capita after oil was discovered beneath their land. They travelled in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed. As the death toll rose, the FBI took up the case, but badly mishandled the investigation. Its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to former Texas Ranger Tom White, who, together with the Osage and an undercover team, began to uncover one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.