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    "title": "Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore",
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    "description": "When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs\u2014the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store\u2019s overwhelmed shelves.\n\nBut when Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore\u2019s upper room, Lydia\u2019s life comes unglued. Always Joey\u2019s favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But when Lydia flips through his books she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. And they seem to contain a hidden message. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia?\n\nAs Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey\u2019s suicide, she unearths a long buried memory from her own violent childhood. Details from that one bloody night begin to circle back. Her distant father returns to the fold, along with an obsessive local cop, and the Hammerman, a murderer who came into Lydia\u2019s life long ago and, as she soon discovers, never completely left.",
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