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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL 
Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious ReviewersWARN Deleted Reviews
Deleted ReviewsWARN Phrase Repetition
Phrase RepetitionPASS Rating Trend
Rating TrendPASS Unverified Purchases
Unverified PurchasesPASS Word Count Comparison
Word Count ComparisonPASS Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review HistoryPASS Reviewer Ease
Reviewer EasePASS Brand Repeats
Brand RepeatsPASS Incentivized Reviews
Incentivized ReviewsN/A Reviewer Participation
Reviewer Participation
Most Trusted Reviews
Like the previous Spenser novel, Hugger Mugger, this entry in ... [Go to full review]
Jul 21, 2021
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)
Take-Back Reviewer (7 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.4)
Verified Purchaser
Overlapping Review History: reviewed 4 of 9 top products
Overrepresented Participation (posted 3 Reviews)
Least Trusted Reviews
I've been looking forward to this book since I first ... [Go to full review]
Dec 15, 2002
0%
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TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Created on a high volume day
Contains repetitive phrases 
Brand Repeater (5 of 174 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
One-Hit Wonder
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
Less than approximately 10% of reviewers have only reviewed this product. The One-Hit Wonders have rated this product an average of 1.0 while the reviewers who have posted more than one review have rated this product an average of 4.4. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
Take-Back Reviewers
Approximately 50% of reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is an excessively large percentage of Take-Back Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Deleted Reviews
Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 3. Even though deleted reviews don't affect the average rating, the fact that action was taken to delete reviews raises some red flags about the integrity of the reviews for the product as whole.
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
- We don't have a magic ability to collect every single deleted review; we can only identify reviews as deleted if we collect them on one date and then notice they are no longer visible on a subsequent date.
- We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
- We also don't know why these reviews were removed. It could be action from the platform, personal decision by the review author, part of an entire account closure, even some data error on our part, etc.
3.0 average rating of deleted reviews
Warn Phrase Repetition
Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
Common Phrases in Reviews:
~10% of reviews
(4.5/5)
(4.5/5)
~10% of reviews
(4.5/5)
(4.5/5)
Approximately 50% of reviews use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Pass Rating Trend
Rating Trend
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- <10%
- Created on high-volume days
We didn't notice any signals that would indicate reviews were created unevenly over time.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Pass Unverified Purchases
Unverified Purchases
109 of the 2,152 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Unverified purchases may be the result of Kindle Unlimited readers, buyers who didn't pay full price, or reviewers who did not purchase the product at Amazon. Read more about our Unverified Purchases test.
Pass Word Count Comparison
Word Count Comparison
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- <10%
- Have an overrepresented word count
We didn't find any review word count groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
~35% also reviewed:
Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity by Michelle Bates
~25% also reviewed:
The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High... by Raymond Chandler
~25% also reviewed:
Watercolor Painting: A Comprehensive Approach to... by Tom Hoffmann
~20% also reviewed:
God Save the Child (Spenser) by Dell
~20% also reviewed:
The Godwulf Manuscript (Spencer, No. 1) (Spenser) by Robert B. Parker
~20% also reviewed:
Looking for Rachel Wallace (Spenser) by Robert B. Parker
~20% also reviewed:
Walking Shadow (Spenser Book 21) by Robert B. Parker
~20% also reviewed:
Night Passage (Jesse Stone Novels Book 1) by Robert B. Parker
~20% also reviewed:
Canon CLI-251XL 3 Color Multi Pack Compatible to... by Canon
Approximately 30% of reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Reviewer Ease
Reviewer Ease
The ease score is the average rating for all reviews that a given reviewer submits. The average ease score for reviewers of this product is 4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
4.0 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
Approximately 15% of reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Incentivized Reviews
Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
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- <10%
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
We didn't detect any reviews that used language indicating they were incentivized.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.