Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

A Novel

    • 4.2 • 248 Ratings
    • $15.99
    • $15.99

Publisher Description

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 world that booklovers will adore” (Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins).

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
June 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Scribner
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
4.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Selchin ,

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

This was an excellent murder mystery! Not of the standard Agatha Christie style, but tweaked for Readers and Booklovers. Curious characters, great grammar usage, unexpected storyline, enjoyable wordsmithery, appropriately creepy. I’d recommend this to anyone with a reading or book fetish, especially if they’re lovers of the murder mystery genre.
ENJOY!!!

TrooperCam ,

Enough twists to make it a worthwhile read

I picked this up because the title intrigued me but I am glad I did. I enjoyed the storyline of Lydia trying to live her life with this incident from her childhood always over her head. There were enough twists and turns that the payoff is worth the trip. I found the characters to be very believable and while it dragged slightly overall pacing was fast.

eclarebear ,

Fantastic!

This book is interesting, well paced and a super enthralling story with many moving parts. I loved it! There are unpredictable twists and turns and it's extremely hard to put down. Highly highly recommend!

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