ABOUT
THE BOOK

On a cold, dark night in Oslo, 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 detective. She discovers a strange butterfly medallion in his desk, which leads to the discovery of a young woman, Siv Underland, in a snow-drift, with two bullets in her head and a gun in her hand. Igi learns that her father and the young woman died within hours of each other. Who killed Siv Underland, and did the same person kill Igi’s father? Igi is an under-employed research psychologist, with more than enough problems of her own, but she soon turns detective and finds herself on a trail that leads to the final days of her father and Siv Underland, and to Oslo’s underworld of corruption, sadism, and child abuse. Pernille Rygg was born in 1963: The Butterfly Effect is her first novel.