Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Not a Mystery

While the author has a fine ability to describe the setting and an interesting array of characters, I knew the murderer very early in this book--and I rarely can do that. Also a main character acts out-of-character two-thirds of the way through which distorts the plot. But my biggest disappointment was with the ending. This is not a mystery to solve but a drama of prejudice and racism, and I found the ending left a bitter taste. I live in the Pacific Northwest and to characterize it with such unrelenting--and unresolved--bigotry is unfair and untrue. Such a shame that an author feels readers want that kind of book.