The strange book behind "True Detective"

…also he is using the device of the Unreliable Narrator

“You just show that your first-person narrator was actually in an insane asylum and then OH MY GOD, did it actually happen? Who can say? Here, I can say. It didn’t happen because your narrator was just no good. Listen. Never lend an unreliable narrator money.”
— Dinosaur Comics, “Literary techniques comics: Unreliable Narrator”