The Butterfly Effect - Softcover
Igi Heitmann is grieving for her father - a washed up private eye killed in a hit and run accident - when she stumbles upon a butterfly medallion, incongruous amidst the detritus scattered on her father's desk. This discovery leads to another, altogether more gruesome but seemingly linked: a young woman lying dead in the snow with bullet wounds in her head and a gun in her hand. Drawn on by a swelling determination to piece together the final moments of her father's life, Igi finds herself descending ever deeper into the realms of criminality and corruption, all in the pursuit of the increasingly mystifying truth.
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"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)
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"[A] terrific first novel" (Guardian)
"Miss Smilia's Feeling for Snow revisited" (Guardian)
"A compelling thriller which invites comparison with Hoeg" (Glasgow Herald)
A pulsating tale of discovery and pursuit; Rygg marries a vivid exploration of the criminal underworld with a fiercely compelling plot.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1860464335
- ISBN 13 9781860464331
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It is a cold, dark, windy night in Oslo, and Igi Heitmann is in her dead father's office, trying to piece together the last days of his life as a private eye. She discovers a butterfly pendant in his desk -- which in turn leads to the discovery of a young woman lying dead in a snowdrift with two bullets in her head and a gun in her hand. Igi learns that her father and the girl died within hours of each other. Who killed the girl, and did the same person kill Andreas Heitmann? Igi is an underemployed research psychologist with enough problems of her own: her husband is a transvestite who often wakes up beside young men instead of next to her. But soon she loses herself in the role of detective, on a trail that leads not only to her father's and the girl's final days, but also to the city's underworld of corruption, sadism, and child abuse. Igi is caught among the shards of a dozen shattered lives and must decide if the patterns of violence she confronts have come about through accident, fate, or sinister human design. She must tread carefully if she is to reconstruct the violent and tragic truth of those lives -- and not be killed herself in the process. This is the author's first novel Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Crime Fiction; Mystery; ISBN: 1860464335. ISBN/EAN: 9781860464331. Inventory No: 0253267. Seller Inventory # 0253267
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