Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Excellent murder mystery. Death is tragic. Life is funny.

Sparkle Hayter watches CNN and the Cartoon Channel, (according to her Amazon.com interview). 'Nice Girls Finish Last' is influenced by both: a thoroughly enjoyable mystery novel which is simultaneously loopy and gritty. Robin Hudson has principles, needs to pay bills, and wants to be a TV reporter - so she's balancing on the edge of yellow journalism, working out of a converted bathroom with a painfully annoying boss, and coping with life's mundane details, like avoiding a least-favorite relative and making a GYN appointment. Murder can complicate an already busy schedule. Robin rushes around New York, often noticing the quirky, ironic, and just plain inexplicable: are we aware of security cameras as we pick our noses, and what is guerilla art anyway? The mystery is clever and the background is serious and silly, commonplace and outrageous, kind of like real life. It's great entertainment for nice girls, and for the rest of us, too