Reuben Hoar Library (Littleton)

Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore, a novel, Matthew Sullivan

eng

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fiction

Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore

961003608

Matthew Sullivan

a novel

"When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind"--, Provided by publisherLydia Smith, a clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, calls the lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves "BookFrogs." When Joey Molina, a young BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore's upper room, he bequeaths his meager worldly possessions to her. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But they seem to contain a hidden message. As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey's suicide, she unearths a long buried memory from her own violent childhood