A Beautiful Place to Die: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Beautiful Place to Die runs 12.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Saul Reichlin (about 8.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 26 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 12.7 hours, it runs longer than 74% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Detective Emmanuel Cooper
This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 24.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Beautiful Place to Die | 12.7 hrs |
| 2 | Let the Dead Lie | 11.6 hrs |
More narrated by Saul Reichlin
Saul Reichlin narrates 130 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,615 hours in all.
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
2,615 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Giver of Stars: Reese's Book Club
- Circe
- Water for Elephants
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- The Invention of Wings
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
A Beautiful Place to Die is book 1 of Malla Nunn's Detective Emmanuel Cooper series: a 12.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Saul Reichlin, released April 10, 2009, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Saul Reichlin
- Released
- April 10, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction)
- Series
- Detective Emmanuel Cooper #1
- ISBN
- 9781440708442
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Beautiful Place to Die as an audiobook?
A Beautiful Place to Die runs 12.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.5 hours.
Is A Beautiful Place to Die free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Beautiful Place to Die?
A Beautiful Place to Die is narrated by Saul Reichlin.
Is A Beautiful Place to Die worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.5 hours, saving 4.2 hours.