Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is not the book I thought it would be when I found it on Overdrive. But it was actually better than I was expecting! There are two mysteries at the center of Midnight, one in the past and one in the present, that our protagonist, Lydia, finds herself struggling to solve on her own. In the present day Lydia works at a bookstore where one of her favorite patrons, an unemployed ex-con with a penchant for books named Joey, commit suicide by […]

I have no idea how I ended up reading this book — I think it might have been recommended to me on GoodReads — but I didn’t know anything about it at the outset, except the title and the book jacket cover, which for some reason gave me the impression that it would be a quirky little murder mystery set in a bookstore. Like Black Books, with murrrrrder. That is not what this is. It is a murder mystery, but there is nothing quirky about […]