Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is by Matthew Sullivan. Sullivan's first novel is a realistic fiction foray into a suicide in a bookstore. Lydia survived a horrible mass murder as a child, she now works as a clerk in the Bright Ideas Bookstore. When a young ex-con hangs himself in the bookstore and leaves all of his possessions to Lydia, she must face the possibility that Joey's death may be related to the crime she's spent her life trying to forget. 

Rated: 10th grade - P (profanity) - AC (mature thematic content) - V (violence).