Lucas reviewed Red Handler by David Smith
A riotous metafictional dissection of a "famous" Norwegian detective writer
Frode Brandeggen (1970–2014), an unknown …
An amusing metafictive book at which I grinned quite a lot.
3 stars
I enjoyed how it pokes at genre fiction, at novels more broadly, and, more sharply, at academic and high-brow commentary on pop culture, on the importance of the biographical and the author for explanation and expansion.
Didn't like the one sentence in which a cat is harmed. 🤷♀️