The writers of “Sharper” studied the great David Mamet well

A beautiful girl who enters a bookshop, with a graceful young man behind the counter, immediately makes one think badly. Not in the romantic comedy sense: after watching the series “You” (by Greg Berlanti & Sera Gamble) we suspect that meetings in bookstores are dangerous. Readers are strange people: this one, for example, is willing to kill to have the exclusive on the reader he’s fallen in love with. Booksellers and readers haven’t complained so far – and after all there isn’t a series or a film where the people who traffic with books have all their wheels in place. “Sharper” begins in a Greenwich Village bookstore. Old and rare titles, to worsen the strangeness of those who dare to cross the threshold. A pretty girl searches for a novel by Zola Neale Hurston, for a dissertation on black feminist literature. However, she confesses that in her life, orphaned together with her brother, she feels more like “Jane Eyre” – and here a first edition of 1847 appears from the antiquarian shelf, locked away.