{"product_id":"midnight-at-the-bright-ideas-bookstore-paperback","title":"Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Sullivan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Sullivan is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eMidnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore\u003c\/i\u003e, which was an IndieNext pick, a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Pick, a GoodReads Choice Award finalist, and winner of the Colorado Book Award. His writing has appeared in\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Spokesman-Review, Sou'wester \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere, and his stories have been awarded the \u003ci\u003eFlorida Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Prize and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize. He grew up in a family of eight raucous kids in Aurora, Colorado, and received his BA from the University of San Francisco and his MFA from the University of Idaho. After working as a bookseller at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he spent twenty years as a tenured instructor teaching writing, literature, and film at a rural HSI community college in the high desert of central Washington State. He is married to a librarian and now lives in Anacortes, on Fidalgo Island in the Northwest corner of Washington. His new stand-alone mystery novel, \u003ci\u003eMidnight in the Orchard by the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from HarperCollins\/Hanover Square Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53463723344179,"sku":"9781501116858","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/fb0mt45OjE9781501116858.webp?v=1781586608","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/midnight-at-the-bright-ideas-bookstore-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}