The House with the Blue Front Door

Interconnected and Interweaving. Bromke executes on an interconnected and interweaving style here better than many other attempts I've seen at such an approach. Told via half a dozen or so perspectives - mostly the various ladies who live in a particular neighborhood - this book has its own central mystery while also revealing bits and pieces of a larger mythos. A mythos that will leave the reader with bated breath desperate for the next book... where it is possible Bromke will continue to tease out this particular larger, seemingly darker, mystery. If you are a reader that can have no possible spoilers when reading a book, you're going to want to start with Book 1 of this series. I personally started with Book 2 and had no real problems following the story (thanks in part to Bromke putting a summary of each character and where they are at the start of the tale), but I generally have no issues doing this and back reading the original stories. This is one of those women's fiction tales that might come close to the cozy mystery label, perhaps - I've never read a book knowing it was labeled as a “cozy mystery”, but knowing how friends speak of what that genre entails, this book certainly gets close to that feeling. Ultimately a fun, compelling, and short-ish (just over 200 page?) read that truly will have you coming back to this series. Very much recommended.