Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: An amateur effort

I read this book because I had enjoyed her second book, "Little Friend," despite its clumsy ending. I found this book to be amateurish, e.g., using an "Epilogue" at the end of the book to wrap up story lines involving minor characters...even though these characters were unnecessary to resolution of the main plot. Her characterizations were more like caricatures, describing (endlessly) the smoking and drinking habits of her characters, giving the rich protagonists excessively foppish ways. Annoyingly, there wasn't a single character I actually LIKED. All were venal, shallow, nitwits with no moral character whatsoever. Not even flickers of conscience for some very bad conduct. Finally, the plot was ludicrous in that (no spoilers here) the police were incapable of discovering who committed the crimes, even though there were clues everywhere. Like, "Little Friend," there is a simplistic ending that does not coincide with the internal logic of the story.