Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel

When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. --Amazon Really good story/mystery

Little Lydia. Our main character was the sole witness to a family’s murder when she was ten, and many years later, she finds an ex-com patron hanged in the bookstore where she works. Strange occurrences, and things get stranger as she tries to figure out why her ‘friend’ Joey killed himself. The twists in this one were suspenseful without being scary. I enjoyed getting to know the characters. Very enjoyable audiobook!!

A sad haunting novel about secrets and those that bear them. I found Joey and Lydia to be such engaging characters. I wanted to rush over to my local book shop and look for them myself. Joey was an observer of other people. He longed to participate in life and mingle with others, but in a way, he didn’t know how. He was forever a lost boy. Lydia was tormented by her childhood. She narrowly escaped death herself, and her father continued to protec...read more

Well written. Kept me on the edge of my seat. It is a mystery, but the death scene in chapter 1 when Lydia goes upstairs to look for Joey was very detailed. . . it put me in a room I never want to be in.

I really enjoyed this book! It was awesome reading something that takes place in a familiar area.

I thought the storyline was super unique and I enjoyed how it all unfolded. I got a little frustrated with Lydia at some points but I’m glad I came around to liking her as a character. Raj was my favorite because he was able to fit into her life as if no time had passed. I love friendships like that.