{"id":42854,"date":"2017-10-13T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=42854"},"modified":"2017-10-08T22:29:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T02:29:30","slug":"midnight-at-the-bright-ideas-bookstore-matthew-sullivan-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/midnight-at-the-bright-ideas-bookstore-matthew-sullivan-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42614 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/08\/Midnight-at-the-Bright-Ideas-Bookstore-by-Matthew-Sullivan-on-BookDragon-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/08\/Midnight-at-the-Bright-Ideas-Bookstore-by-Matthew-Sullivan-on-BookDragon-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/08\/Midnight-at-the-Bright-Ideas-Bookstore-by-Matthew-Sullivan-on-BookDragon.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>Lydia and Raj were childhood best friends. Then Carol \u2013 who, at 10, was already an established troublemaker \u2013 makes Raj a third wheel, at least until she&#8217;s brutally murdered with her parents. Lydia, in Carol&#8217;s house that night for a sleepover, survives by hiding under the kitchen sink.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades later, Lydia faces another horrific death \u2013 the suicide of one of the regular patrons of the Bright Ideas Bookstore, where she&#8217;s been working. Lydia is the first to find Joey&#8217;s body; in his pocket, she discovers a photo from her tenth birthday, which also happens to include Raj and Carol. How it got there is a mystery Lydia must solve \u2013 even at the cost of shattering her quiet, carefully controlled existence.\u00a0Her answers come in books \u2013 Joey&#8217;s books, in which he&#8217;s left desperate, complicated cutout messages to be meticulously, ingeniously solved.<\/p>\n<p>Narrator Madeleine Maby replicates Lydia&#8217;s restrained, even eerie calm, enabling the tension of must-know whodunit and whydunit to build expertly as didn&#8217;t-see-that-coming layer after layer is revealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: Maby&#8217;s adroit narration provides Sullivan&#8217;s debut quite the aural boost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2017-10-01-6404094.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Audio,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, October 1, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lydia and Raj were childhood best friends. 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