'Bright Ideas' is the Denver
bookstore where Lydia Smith works.
Joey Molina is young, damaged and
one of Lydia's favourite 'book frogs' until the night Joey takes his own life
amongst the book stacks. The old Lydia starts to unravel. Joey left her his
collection of books, defaced in odd ways and the picture he carried in his
pocket was of her and some friends on her tenth birthday. Memories surface of
Lydia and her dad fleeing Denver for a cabin in the mountains the only survivor
of the 'hammer man' attack.
People she thought she'd lost;
childhood friend Raj, her estranged father, the cop who never solved the hammer
man case start showing up at the store and calling; banging on that door in Lydia’s
brain where the memories of that awful night reside. A clever debut mystery
that keeps you guessing, studded with characters that booksellers and customers
alike will recognize.
(N.B. Sullivan is a former
employee of Tattered Cover in Denver)
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