Cultural Dessert

I’ve just finished reading ‘The Brutal Art’ – an excellent novel by Jesse Kellerman. A clever interweaving of detective story and family saga, I thought it got the balance between predictability and completely unexpected twists spot on. ‘The Brutal Art’ is the tale of a New York art dealer who, through the discovery of an epic work of interlocking cartoon drawings by an unknown artist (the description of which, for me, sounded a lot like the work of Alasdair Gray) is drawn into trying to solve a confusing murder mystery. An intriguing and gripping read.