The Golden Section

Igi Heitmann #2

by Pernille Rygg

Igi Heitmann is being stalked. In the suburb of Oslo where she lives with her cross-dressing husband and their daughter, someone is spray-painting the walls of the houses. HEITMANN = CHILD KILLER, the graffiti says. Who would think this, and how do they know where she lives On a bitter winter's evening, Igi attends the opening of the exhibition of an avant-garde artist whose use of violent pornography has caused great controversy. A video is playing, showing a young man being strangled as part of a sado-masochistic sex game. Moving between the world of violent pornographic art and the happy life she shares with her husband and daughter, Igi must follow a dangerous and shocking path to the truth.An Igi Heitman mystery.

Genres: Thriller, Crime

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Arnez · Rating 1 out of 5]

The way Pernille Rygg is writing makes it almost impossible to read, finished the book with a headache.

[Ari · Rating 1 out of 5]

How did this even get published? Reeks of an author trying too hard to be unique. Books this long I often finish in a day and this took me two weeks to get through and I still don’t know what happened through half of it or who the killer was. Also the whole plot line of her being stalked is just completely irrelevant to the story. Just awful all around. I never write reviews and I hated this enough to write this one.

[Helen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was quite different from what I was expecting. It's a thriller, written in the first person by a psychologist, and with (or so it seemed to me) quite a lot of bits missed out of the story that you have to piece together yourself. There is a lot of detail, despite this. I got a bit lost several times! Igi, the psychologist, lives with her husband (who sometimes morphs into a woman), and their little girl; she is apparently being stalked, probably by a former patient. She ends up following the trail of a dangerous killer. The child is well characterised, and all the time you fear for her safety on the edges of the situation Igi has got into, which seems to spiral out of control. Eventually all is resolved, but I felt I had missed some important clues along the way. It is set in and around Oslo - with maps! Although this is not a police procedural as such there was quite a lot about it which reminded me of Anne Holt.

[Siri-beate · Rating 1 out of 5]

Denne var rett og sett forvirrende å lese! Jeg fant knapt ut hvem morderen er!

[Ken Fredette · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book gave me a head ache. Her randomly applying people with problems got me messed up.