Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Not Even 1 Star

BIG DISAPPOINTMENT! I was hoping that the Scarpetta novels had gotten back to great plots and storytelling, but Black Notice would not pass a sophomore English class. It is the same tiresome characters with incoherent, wandering text that never comes together. There are countless subplots dropped into the story, yet not one makes sense. What is Senator Lord's involvement with Interpol? And what made this morally righteous, genius of a coroner think that a man she barely knows is falling in love with her after a night in the sack? Ick! And why? This book just alternates between whiny (poor Dr. Scarpetta works too hard, everyone is plotting against her, and her bitchy niece Lucy won't call to thank her for the flowers!) and just plain goofy (the online impersonator). I don't usually cheer for the murderer, but these characters are not even likable. Patricia Cornwell is capable of much better, but I doubt I'll be reading it. Shame.