Oslo. Igi Heimann, psychologue, est harcelée : quelqu'un, par bombages, l'accuse de meurtre. Elle se rend à l'exposition du photographe Aske où les images terribles d'un assassinat se mettent à défiler... Igi se lance dans une enquête trouble dans les milieux artistique et homosexuel de la capitale de la Norvège.
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.
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.