2 separate books that have no other connection other than the Chicago 1893 exhibition. The first one follows the architects charged with the realization of the exhibition, the other book turns around a serial killer who profited from the affluence and confusion generated by the same exhibition.
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airdog rated The Burning Room: 3 stars
airdog rated Devil's peak: 3 stars
Devil's peak (2007, Hodder & Stoughton)
Devil's peak by Deon Meyer
Bennie Griessel may be losing his battle with alcohol but he still knows enough to head up the police team …
Cobra (2014)
Cobra by Deon Meyer
"At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards …
airdog rated The Girl on the Train: 3 stars
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking …
airdog rated Dark Places: 4 stars
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
I have a menness inside me, real as an organ.
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters …
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are …
airdog rated La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert: 3 stars
La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert by Joel Dicker
Sous ses airs de thriller à l'américaine, La vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert est une réflexion sur l'Amérique, sur les …
airdog rated The Secret History: 3 stars
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college …
airdog rated The Nightmare: 3 stars
The Nightmare by Lars Kepler, Laura A. Wideburg
On a summer night the body of a woman is found on board an abandoned pleasure boat drifting around the …
airdog rated The Goldfinch: 5 stars
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel …
airdog rated Our Kind of Traitor: 4 stars
Our Kind of Traitor (2010)
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
Our Kind of Traitor, published in 2010, is a novel by the British author John le Carré, about a Russian …
Review of 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America' on 'GoodReads'
2 stars
Review of 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
2 separate books that have no other connection other than the Chicago 1893 exhibition. The first one follows the architects charged with the realization of the exhibition, the other book turns around a serial killer who profited from the affluence and confusion generated by the same exhibition.