On TV, when it comes to true crime, stories are depicted in one of two ways. There's the cinematic portrayal, which is often introduced with the line "based on a true story." And then there's the documentary style. With Killers of the Flower Moon, I was expecting the former but got the latter, and as I read my brain just couldn't get on board with this presentation. In addition, I thought the bulk of this book would be about the Osage murders - the victims, how the murders were done, the investigations to finding the killers. Instead, it was predominantly about the development of the FBI, and Tom White, the man who lead the investigation that "solved" (you'll need to read the book to understand why I put solved in quotations) the case, was clearly our main protagonist. So here we have a story that was told differently than I expected and that was focused on the subject I found less interesting. Couple that with the fact that I was in a big reading slump when I decided to read this book, and you can maybe understand why I'm only rating this book 2 stars. 
 The subject matter is fascinating. Don't get me wrong there. It's incomprehensible that something like this actually happened, and it didn't even happen that long ago. And considering I never learned anything about this in school because we never seemed to get farther than the Civil War in American history classes, it was very cool to learn about this case and how it lead to what we now know as the FBI. All of that is very cool, and it's also incredibly sad. 
 But at the end of the day, I couldn't get into David Grann's telling of the story. The writing style was very much telling and not showing, and I was expecting something totally different coming into it. It's a shame because had this book been written differently, it could have been great.