Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Matthew Sullivan
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
374

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan Book Summary

When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this “intriguingly dark, twisty” (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 BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store’s overwhelmed shelves.

But when Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper room, Lydia’s life comes unglued. Always Joey’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 Joey’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 Lydia’s life long ago and, as she soon discovers, never completely left. “Both charming and challenging” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review), Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is a “multi-generational tale of abandonment, desperation, and betrayal…inventive and intricately plotted” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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Book Name Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
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A great mystery.... ... that keeps you guessing right up to the end! And, having been born and raised in Denver, I LOVED hearing about all the sights and locations all over the metro area and in the Rocky Mountains (which I really miss seeing everyday!!). Thoroughly enjoyed it! - even lost sleep because I couldn’t stop reading!! Thank you Matthew!

Unpredictable. Loved this book. I read so many thrillers/mysteries that I was surprised with all the twists and turns that I Didn't see anything coming....I enjoyed it until the very end.

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!!!

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.

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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The Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore book written by Matthew Sullivan was published on 13 June 2017, Tuesday in the Literary category. A total of 374 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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