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When a bookshop patron dies by suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this'shocking, charming, thrilling'(Associated Press) and award-winning debut novel.Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she leads a meticulously ordered existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day browsing the overwhelmed stacks.But when a young BookFrog, Joey Molina, hangs himself in one of the upper rooms of the store, Lydia's life comes unglued. Inside one of Joey's pockets is a photograph of Lydia as a little girl. And when she flips through some of 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. The more she puzzles over them, the more they seem to contain a hidden message for her about his final days. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia? With'oddball characters and [a] layered plot'(Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review), Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is “a smart, twisty crime novel set in a worl

Who reads Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore : A Novel?

Author

Matthew J. Sullivan

Publisher

Scribner, Assembled and distributed by Chesterfield County Public Library

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501116865

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.82 / 5 (4,802 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14