Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (714 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071VTRF45 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 588 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
excellent book! excellent book!! it had everything, childhood friendships,family drama and the inside of a bookstore which immediately had me interested I could spend hours "browsing ' (and usually do) I found the workers to be like a family and the whole plot kept me turning the pages.". Fictional Work of the Year!!! Russell Beard This is the book of the year for me, I started it because I worked with the author a few years ago but wow, if there is one book you should read now this is the one. This story takes you through so many emotions and so many mind pondering thoughts, truly a masterpiece, well done Mr. Sullivan. A real page turner. I was not expecting to like this novel as much as I did. The writing was sharp and the descriptions were vivid. Some of the characters needed to be more well-drawn but all in all it kept me turning the pages until I reached the end.
But when Joey McGinty, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore's back room, Lydia's life comes unglued. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. Details from that one bloody night begin to circle back. Trinkets and books - the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. 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. But when Lydia flips through his books, she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. And they seem to contain a hidden message. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, her eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs - the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. Always Joey's favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. 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. Bedazzling, addictive, and wildly clever, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is a heart-pounding mystery that perfectly captures the inte