Igi 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 such a thing, and how do they know where she lives? On a bitter winter's evening, Igi attends the opening of the exhibition of an artist whose use of violent pornography has caused great controversy. A video is playing, in which a young man is strangled as part of a sado-masochistic sex game. The video is real, the killing played out live to its unwitting audience, and one of Igi's clients is accused of murder. Igi finds herself trapped in a postmodern nightmare, as she explores the world in which art, sex and violence meet.

Pernille Rygg was born in 1963. She has studied history and ethnology, for several years worked as a set painter for film companies and for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company. The Golden Section is her third novel.