Lydia Smith loves her job at the Bright Ideas Bookstore in Denver. She even enjoys the irregular regulars she calls BookFrogs that find a welcoming place to huddle in the reading nooks and crannies of the store. She is particularly fond of the young lost soul Joey who seems to follow her around throughout her day and is often the last person to leave. It is quite a shock then when they find Joey hanging from the rafter of the top floor of Bright Ideas and even more surprising when she learns that Joey has left the few things he owns to her. Her discovery of what appear to be secret messages hidden in carefully altered books leads to one mystery but Lydia has a dark history of her own. The reconnection with Raj, a childhood friend, and her estranged father add to her particular mystery at the center of which is the Hammerman. Although I was drawn to this book by its title, there is little that is "bright" about it - more a dark tale of what some of us must do to survive,
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