Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Not well written

I like the occasional murder mystery and I always have one or two books going at any one time, so I do read. I couldn't even finish this book. The characters weren't appealing and visualizations for both people and place were lacking. It's really cold there, ok, but how cold? There was no sense of history for the recreated home of the town's first mayor- yep, it's nice and it's got a lot of old stuff. There was no sense of time- one minute it's the wee hours of the morning, and the next thing you know the mid day tour had begun. I couldn't even get a good handle on how old our heroine is (roughly speaking).Throwing in a couple of recipes didn't make up for the general lack of writing skill. Sorry, but it's a 2 star book all the way.