Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Agree with the others

We, too, have read all of Cornwell's novels (and would buy a new Scarpetta volume in a heartbeat). This is at least the second of the Police Chief Plays House novels I have read--and the last to be sure. The first was mildly amusing--but this was an embarassment to an accomplished novelist like Cornwell. Just why she--and her editors--thought it was worth the time and effort I fail to understand. Cornwell is, in this sense, writing as two separate persons, one who understands mystery writing and one who fails to understand either humorous writing OR police procedurals. Ed McBain-meets-Rita Mae Brown and her cat....