Hmm...had I realized this would be so similar to The Paying Guests, I would have listened to them further apart...This might be another case of the audiobook version swaying my rating since the various accents drove me a bit crazy while listening. I also had to turn it off once while on my balcony gardening and a particularly graphic scene started broadcasting to my neighbors *squirm* While it deals with some broad immigrant issues in San Francisco at the end of the 19th century, the story felt overall like that of Blanche and her regrets regarding her child. I think I'd have liked reading the same story from Jenny's perspective, though I guess the whole whodunit wouldn't have worked that way.