Midnight at The Bright Ideas Bookstore

Lydia has made a life for herself as a bookseller at the Bright Ideas Bookstore and informal liaison with the shop’s less fortunate regulars known affectionately as the Book Frogs. But in the opening scenes of Sullivan’s intricately plotted debut everything changes—when Joey, one of the Book Frogs, commits suicide on the upper floor of the store with a picture of Lydia’slast childhood birthday party in his pocket. A crime beat photo taken in the aftermath has people from her past trying to get in touch. How is Joey linked to her past? And why are the traumatic events of her childhood suddenly being brought back to light? This clever, twisty novel was a treat.