A Free Man of Color: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Benjamin January Mysteries series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Free Man of Color runs 11.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Ron Butler (about 7.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 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 11.7 hours, it runs longer than 65% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Benjamin January Mysteries
This is book 1. Books 1 to 12 run 136 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Free Man of Color | 11.7 hrs |
| 2 | Fever Season | 12.6 hrs |
| 3 | Graveyard Dust | 12.9 hrs |
| 4 | Sold Down the River | 13 hrs |
| 5 | Die upon a Kiss | 14.1 hrs |
| 6 | Wet Grave | 10.9 hrs |
| 7 | Days of the Dead | 12.4 hrs |
| 8 | Dead Water | 10.2 hrs |
| 9 | Dead and Buried | 9.4 hrs |
| 10 | The Shirt on His Back | 9.4 hrs |
| 11 | Ran Away | 9.5 hrs |
| 12 | Good Man Friday | 10 hrs |
More narrated by Ron Butler
Ron Butler narrates 349 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,989 hours in all.
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
3,263 Historical (Fiction) 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 Free Man of Color is book 1 of Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January Mysteries series: a 11.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Ron Butler, released January 5, 2021, on the Historical (Fiction) and Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ron Butler
- Released
- January 5, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Mystery, Thriller & Horror
- Series
- The Benjamin January Mysteries #1
- ISBN
- 9781799922018
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Free Man of Color as an audiobook?
A Free Man of Color runs 11.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.8 hours.
Is A Free Man of Color free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Free Man of Color?
A Free Man of Color is narrated by Ron Butler.
Is A Free Man of Color worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.8 hours, saving 3.9 hours.