Lovely setting, but not much mystery

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Being about artists in residence at Louis Comfort Tiffany's elaborate Long Island estate in the roaring 1920s, Tiffany Blues is full of lush and glittering descriptions of everything from the buildings and sprawling landscape to the flapper-era clothes and the artwork. These descriptions are the high-water mark of the book, which was billed as a romantic thriller/mystery but didn't actually have much mystery to it at all. I didn't understand Jenny's extreme reaction to anyone finding out about her past - yes, what happened to her was awful and traumatic and I get that she didn't want to be judged unfairly by it, but it wasn't a life-or-death secret. It was also easy to figure out who a certain somebody (no spoilers!) was, due to the fairly obvious clues and foreshadowing. So, while the writing was well done and the characters were fleshed out and generally likable, the story needed more to it.