Books like Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
12 books with a reading profile close to Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan. Escapist; an easy read.
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1
The Girls in the Garden
by Lisa Jewell
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
When Clare moves her two daughters, Grace and Pip, into a communal garden square in London, she seeks a safe haven to recover from a domestic crisis.
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2
Ace of Spades
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo are the only Black students at Niveus Private Academy, and both have just been selected as senior prefects.
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3
Sister
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Beatrice flies home to London from New York after her younger sister Tess goes missing.
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4
A Nearly Normal Family
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Stella is an eighteen-year-old girl in Lund, Sweden, who is accused of the murder of a man in his thirties, whom she had been seeing.
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5
All the Sinners Bleed
by S.A. Cosby
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Titus Crown, the first Black sheriff of Charon County, Virginia, confronts a crisis when a school shooting leads to the death of a beloved teacher and the shooter himself.
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6
Before the Fall
by Noah Hawley
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
On a foggy night, a private jet carrying two influential families and a struggling painter named Scott Burroughs crashes into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Genuine Fraud
by E. Lockhart
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Jule West is a young woman with a gift for becoming other people.
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8
Small Mercies
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Set in South Boston during the 1974 desegregation busing crisis, the story follows Mary Pat Fennessy, a hardened resident of the Commonwealth housing projects.
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9
Sunburn
thriller, narrative
Polly is a woman who leaves her husband and child and settles in a small Delaware town, Belleville, where she meets Adam, a man with his own secrets.
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10
When the Stars Go Dark
by Paula McLain
thriller, narrative
Anna Hart, a San Francisco missing persons detective, flees to the coastal town of Mendocino after a personal tragedy shatters her life.
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11
Vanishing Girls
thriller, narrative
Nick and Dara are sisters, once close, now estranged after a car accident that scarred Nick's face and left her with guilt.
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12
The Force
by Don Winslow
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Sergeant Denny Malone leads the Manhattan North Special Task Force, an elite NYPD unit authorized to operate with autonomy to disrupt gang violence and drug trafficking.
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