Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Suicidal Swede and Conniving Canadian

An amateur female sleuth first-person-narrated cosy. This is the best of the series and I'd recommend starting with it if you're new to Kathleen Taylor. She fills in the back plot smoothly. I thought the earlier ones suffered from clunky dialog and implausible plots. Her detective, Tory Bauer is an overweight forty-something widowed waitress who has lived and worked all her life in a small town in north-east South Dakota. They go to Aberdeen or Sioux Falls for the excitement of big city lights. There are romantic comedy elements that may put you off if you're allergic to those ingredients. Chapters begin with "dear reader" type essays that invoke the great ones and ask what Kinsey Milhone or Miss Marples would have done. I thought it was an interesting gimmick myself. It's a few years since the last Tory Bauer book but Kathleen Taylor has a great WEB site still.