Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Careless writing ruins it

The concept is okay, but the characters are cookie-cutter and the style, such as it is, consists of cliches from cover to cover. From the way LaPlante does love to focus on alcoholism you reckon she would have some experience of it or researched it a bit, but none of it rings true. And the plot just does not make sense. She has her main cop drink six fingers of bourbon straight down, twice, then start the third drink rather more sedately. Get real! And he's supposed to be on duty, and he's driving everywhere? It appears that everything LaPlante knows about American cops she's read in trashy novels or seen on trashy TV shows. In other words, nothing. They have ample reason to arrest their main suspect, with a good third of the novel left to go, with full means of eliminating him from the inquiry, but don't dare because he's rich. Dragging it out for dramatic effect like this does not make up for lack of imagination.