Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Whenever a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left out with this “intriguingly dark, twisty” (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel from an award-winning short tale writer.

Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain view. A clerk at the Bright Concepts bookstore, she retains a meticulously crafted presence among her dearest books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs-the lost and depressed regulars who spend each day marauding the store’s overcome shelves..LEARNING MUCH MORE about Midnight on the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Book

But when Joey Molina, a, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper space, Lydia’s life comes unglued. Generally Joey’s favorite bookseller, Lydia continues to be bequeathed his meager worldly belongings. Trinkets and books; the detritus of the lonely, uncared for man. However when Lydia flips through his books she finds them defaced with techniques both troubling and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man around the verge of an emotional reckoning. And they seem to include a hidden message. What do Joey understand? And what does it have regarding Lydia?

As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey’s suicide, she unearths an extended buried memory space from her own violent childhood. Details from that one bloody night begin to group back. Her distant father returns towards the collapse, along with an obsessive local cop, and the Hammerman, a murderer who came into Lydia’s life long ago and, as she quickly discovers, never completely left. “Both alluring and complicated” (Marilyn Stasio, THE BRAND NEW York Times Reserve Review), Midnight in the Bright Tips Bookstore is usually a “multi-generational story of abandonment, desperation, and betrayal…inventive and intricately plotted” (Web publishers Weekly, starred review).