Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: theft by deception

those expecting legal fiction would do well to start theirreading with the afterward in which the author,who had recently served as a juror,describes this effort as "a whole new wonderful frontier". presumably this means the author's entry into the world of legal fiction, while,in fact, a murder trial is merely an incidental pretext for a thinly veiled romance. below average for the courtroom genre.