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A Dead Mother by Anna Celeste Burke

A Dead Mother: Audiobook

Book 4 of the Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Dead Mother runs 11.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Rebecca Mitchell (about 7.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.8listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2018released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish A Dead Mother at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day24 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 11.8 hours, it runs longer than 87% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery

This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 37.3 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 49.1 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1A Dead Husband11.4 hrs
2A Dead Sister13.2 hrs
3A Dead Daughter12.7 hrs
4A Dead Mother11.8 hrs

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

3,195 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 Dead Mother is book 4 of Anna Celeste Burke's Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery series: a 11.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Rebecca Mitchell, released April 24, 2018, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.8 hrs
Narrated by
Rebecca Mitchell
Released
April 24, 2018
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective
Series
Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery #4
ISBN
9781977370464

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Questions listeners ask

How long is A Dead Mother as an audiobook?

A Dead Mother runs 11.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.9 hours.

Is A Dead Mother free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates A Dead Mother?

A Dead Mother is narrated by Rebecca Mitchell.

Is A Dead Mother worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.9 hours, saving 3.9 hours.