{"product_id":"midnight-at-the-bright-ideas-bookstore-9781501116858","title":"Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen a bookshop patron dies by suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this \"shocking, charming, thrilling\" (Associated Press) and award-winning debut novel.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she leads a meticulously ordered existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs--the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day browsing the overwhelmed stacks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when a young BookFrog, Joey Molina, hangs himself in one of the upper rooms of the store, Lydia's life comes unglued. Inside one of Joey's pockets is a photograph of Lydia as a little girl. And when she flips through some of his books, she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. The more she puzzles over them, the more they seem to contain a hidden message for her about his final days. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \"oddball characters and [a] layered plot\" (Marilyn Stasio, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eMidnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a smart, twisty crime novel set in a world that booklovers will adore\" (Jess Walter, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Sullivan is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eMidnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore\u003c\/i\u003e, which was an IndieNext pick, a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Pick, a GoodReads Choice Award finalist, and winner of the Colorado Book Award. His writing has appeared in\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Spokesman-Review, Sou'wester \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere, and his stories have been awarded the \u003ci\u003eFlorida Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Prize and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize. He grew up in a family of eight raucous kids in Aurora, Colorado, and received his BA from the University of San Francisco and his MFA from the University of Idaho. After working as a bookseller at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he spent twenty years as a tenured instructor teaching writing, literature, and film at a rural HSI community college in the high desert of central Washington State. He is married to a librarian and now lives in Anacortes, on Fidalgo Island in the Northwest corner of Washington. His new stand-alone mystery novel, \u003ci\u003eMidnight in the Orchard by the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from HarperCollins\/Hanover Square Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613220868370,"sku":"9781501116858","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a181a4c7-3341-47dd-8526-8b76df5374a3.jpg?v=1732391022","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/midnight-at-the-bright-ideas-bookstore-9781501116858","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}