Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel
When a bookshop patron commits suicide, it’s his favorite store clerk who must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever 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...
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When a bookshop patron commits suicide, it’s his favorite store clerk who must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever 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
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781501116841 (1501116843)
ASIN: 1501116843
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore had a couple of things going for it. First and most importantly a bookstore. These kind of books always find a way onto my reading list. The main character being a bookseller also helps. Add to that some mysterious messages that are left and a death to investig...
Minor nitpick: How is this bookshop staying open? The current economic climate has booksellers internationally at quite tight margins!This story features suicide by hanging.Lydia Smith used to have a different name but she achieved notoriety as the survivor of a serial killer attack (Nora Roberts ha...
An intricate story of many people all connected through a bookstore and/or their pasts. Lydia has changed her last name and moved back to the city of her childhood, deciding to start over and having somewhat unrealistic ideas that nobody will uncover her secret (including the man she lives with.) Th...
I had hoped to keep up the momentum and actually post a new review every single day leading up to New Year's but I got super busy with mom in town and...ah well. :-) I thought I made notes about every single book that I've read this year and then it's time to review Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bo...
This is not the book that the title led me to think it was. It's darker, more compelling and much more moving than I expected. For me, the title "Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore" suggested an upbeat, novel about people who love books doing slightly mysterious, clever, perhaps witty things. ...
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