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Whenever a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly smart debut novel from an award-winning brief story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life concealing in plain perception. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she maintains a meticulously made life among her beloved books, her eccentric co-workers, and the BookFrogs - the lost and depressed regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed racks. But when Joey McGinty, a young, beguiling BookFrog, eliminates himself in the bookstore's rear room, Lydia's life comes unglued. Always Joey's favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly belongings. Trinkets and books - the detritus of any depressed, uncared for man. But when Lydia flips through his books, she discovers them defaced in ways both troubling and inexplicable. They show you the psyche of a young man on the verge of the emotional reckoning. Plus they seem to include a hidden communication. What performed Joey know? And what is there regarding Lydia? As Lydia untangles the puzzle of Joey's suicide, she unearths a long-buried memory from her own violent youth. Details from that one bloody evening begin to circle back. Her faraway father results to the collapse along with an obsessive local cop and the Hammerman, a murderer who arrived to Lydia's prolonged previously and, as she soon discovers, never completely kept. Bedazzling, addictive, and wildly smart, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is a heart-pounding puzzle that perfectly catches the intellect and eccentricity of the bookstore milieu and will keep you speculating before very end.
