Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel

When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this â€œintriguingly dark, twistyâ€ (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel from an award-winning short story writer.

Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogsâ€”the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the storeâ€™s overwhelmed shelves.

But when Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstoreâ€™s upper room, Lydiaâ€™s life comes unglued. Always Joeyâ€™s favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But when Lydia flips through his books she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. And they seem to contain a hidden message. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia?

As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joeyâ€™s suicide, she unearths a long buried memory from her own violent childhood. Details from that one bloody night begin to circle back. Her distant father returns to the fold, along with an obsessive local cop, and the Hammerman, a murderer who came into Lydiaâ€™s life long ago and, as she soon discovers, never completely left. â€œBoth charming and challengingâ€ (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review), Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is a â€œmulti-generational tale of abandonment, desperation, and betrayalâ€¦inventive and intricately plottedâ€ (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781501116858
ReleaseDate 2018-01-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501116858

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781501116858
ReleaseDate	2018-01-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501116858

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel

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