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The Butterfly Effect

Pernille Rygg author Joan Tate translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:1st Jan '04

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'Curl up with a stiff whiskey and lose yourself in the inquiring mind of Igi Heitmann' - Guardian

It is a cold, dark, windy night in Oslo and Igi Heitmann pores over the debris in her dead father's office, trying to piece together the last days of his life as a failed private eye.

It is a cold, dark, windy night in Oslo and Igi Heitmann pores over the debris in her dead father's office, trying to piece together the last days of his life as a failed private eye. She discovers a curious butterfly medallion in his desk - which in turn leads to the discovery of a young woman in a snow-drift, two bullets in her head and a gun in her hand. Igi's father and the young woman died within hours of each other - is the same person responsible for both their deaths?

Igi soon finds herself in the role of detective, on a trail that leads to the city's underworld of corruption, sadism and child abuse. Caught amongst the shards of a dozen shattered lives, she must tread carefully if she is to reconstruct the violent and tragic truth, and not be killed in the process.

The intricate knots in the mystery keep the reader in a constant state of tension. Pernille Rygg creates...a story which is dynamic and hypnotic -- Avisa Trondheim
[A] terrific first novel * Guardian *
Miss Smilia's Feeling for Snow revisited * Guardian *
A compelling thriller which invites comparison with Hoeg * Glasgow Herald *

ISBN: 9780099449263

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm

Weight: 164g

224 pages