Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A sad falling off

Reading Tony Hillerman's latest, I was at first thrilled by the congregation of old friends - Jim, Joe, Bernie, Cowboy et al - and a return to the delightfully atmospheric Four Corners. Then not too many pages further, my elation was undermined by a pathetically weak plot, a non-dimensional villan and female victim, and a rush to the totally predictable and maudlin denouemont. Let's hope that Tony finds a second wind; these characters and northern New Mexico are too good to waste on a comic book story.