Night Film by Marsha Pessl

I was not sure how to review this. I think if you ignore its literary pretensions, the over-use of italics, the rambling, cheesy ending, and the poor editing and proofreading, what you are left with is quite an entertaining (if bonkers) novel. Prepare yourself for a rollercoaster ride where you will question your grip on reality as you encounter documentary evidence relating to the mysterious film director Cordova and his family. It can be eerie at times and I thought the way that Pessl blended fiction with reality was quite clever at times. I also liked the use of the mocked-up webpages and other documentary evidence. It definitely could have done with more work on the writing, however.
I admit, I enjoyed reading some of the awful reviews it got (people mostly seemed to love it or loathe it) and I agreed that the protagonist didn't really need his own Scooby gang to join in the investigation, as much as they might have added colour and assisted a man who seemed to be mostly obsessed with the clothes the people he encountered were wearing. It doesn't really work as an investigation type novel though, as Scott is a poor investigative journalist whose main tactic seems to be bribe as many people as you can, and if the author can't think of how he might get some information, one of the Scoobies can always supply it for him.