Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Clunky clunky

This is my first Patterson novel, and can say it will be my last. Detective work is practically non-existent in this book, except for the last couple of chapters, wherein the reader is socked between the eyes with all the details of solving the crime. Even the patches of investigative work we see on Alex Cross' part are ridiculously unbelievable. I mean, here we have an FBI agent who resorts to newspaper clippings to figure out if the woman who has been arrested has committed another crime elsewhere in the country, only to figure out that she murdered her 3 children for which she was prosecuted and convicted in Vermont in 1983. I guess fingerprint files weren't on record waaaaay back in the 80's. How insulting Mr. Patterson is to his readers. And that is but example.