All I Want For Christmas

I don't know if I'm aging out of Karen Swan books or if Karen Swan is aging out of writing 20-something protagonists. I've spent Christmases re-reading her earlier books, but the last few have just been so flat.

Darcy's a PhD art student seconded to Copenhagen for a year to work on her thesis. She's there when they discover a hidden painting behind a classic and she's tasked with trying to figure out who the woman in the painting is. To do so she must trawl through the archives of the artist, held by the Masden family foundation who were the artist's patrons in the 1920s. Max is the corporate lawyer working for the foundation and one of the three men Darcy matched with on an exclusive dating app.

The characters were like the couple in the Christmas Lights - two dimensional and very hard to like. There were a few times I thought about DNF-ing but reading the KS Christmas book is a decade-long tradition. Unfortunately I think this is where it stops. We'll always have Christmas At Tiffany's.