Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Masterful storytelling

I really enjoyed this story. Like a good old fashioned ghost story and murder mystery rolled into one great story. Hecht paints a vivid backdrop of the places he writes about. I've lived in all three places in the story. Boston, Seattle and New Orleans. The descriptions are accurate and are written as if the author was there watching it unfold and he brought me right there with him.As fun as the story was it did slow in the middle and drag a towards the end but only a little. There were a couple of cultural mistakes but only a person who lived ther would really know the difference but they did not distract from the story too much. Overall I enjoyed reading it and am moving forward in the series onto book two.