Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: No Laughing Matter - No Kidding

Always on the look-out for new authors I picked up this book and well, I wish I hadn't. In a nutshell, Nick Madrid, a freelance journalist, witnesses the death of a young woman - she falls past his hotel window - while covering a comedy festival in Montreal. Nick then becomes a somewhat hesitant gumshoe detective attempting to solve this "drug related accident". The author works way too hard to be funny, does a lot of name-dropping and doesn't work hard enough in crafting an engaging mystery or story. I don't see myself pursuing this series any further.