Audio Book Review: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel by Matthew Sullivan
Release Date: June 13, 2017 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Audio Length: 9 hours Narrator: Madeleine Maby Genre: Fiction/Suspense Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: 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 bo...