A Cold Day for Murder: Audiobook
Book 1 of the A Kate Shugak Investigation series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Cold Day for Murder runs 5.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Marguerite Gavin (about 3.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 5.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 5.5 hours, it is shorter than 86% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on A Kate Shugak Investigation
This is book 1. Books 1 to 23 run 191.8 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Cold Day for Murder | 5.5 hrs |
| 2 | A Fatal Thaw | 6.2 hrs |
| 3 | Dead in the Water | 5.8 hrs |
| 4 | A Cold-Blooded Business | 7 hrs |
| 5 | Play With Fire | 7.4 hrs |
| 6 | Blood Will Tell | 8.4 hrs |
| 7 | Breakup | 8.2 hrs |
| 8 | Killing Grounds | 7.7 hrs |
| 9 | Hunter's Moon | 7.4 hrs |
| 10 | Midnight Come Again | 9.1 hrs |
| 11 | The Singing of the Dead: A Kate Shugak Novel | 8.7 hrs |
| 12 | A Fine and Bitter Snow | 6.3 hrs |
More narrated by Marguerite Gavin
Marguerite Gavin narrates 420 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,914 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
1,638 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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 Cold Day for Murder is book 1 of Dana Stabenow's A Kate Shugak Investigation series: a 5.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Marguerite Gavin, released October 18, 2011, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Marguerite Gavin
- Released
- October 18, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- A Kate Shugak Investigation #1
- ISBN
- 9781455830817
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Cold Day for Murder as an audiobook?
A Cold Day for Murder runs 5.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.7 hours.
Is A Cold Day for Murder free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Cold Day for Murder?
A Cold Day for Murder is narrated by Marguerite Gavin.