A Necessary Evil: The thrilling historical crime novel you won’t be able to put down: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Wyndham and Banerjee series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Necessary Evil: The thrilling historical crime novel you won’t be able to put down runs 11.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Simon Bubb (about 7.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 23 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 11.2 hours, it runs longer than 60% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Wyndham and Banerjee series
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 11.7 hours before it; books 1 to 5 run 55.6 hours in all.
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Simon Bubb narrates 125 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,103 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
3,429 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 Necessary Evil: The thrilling historical crime novel you won’t be able to put down is book 2 of Abir Mukherjee's Wyndham and Banerjee series: a 11.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Bubb, released June 1, 2017, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Bubb
- Released
- June 1, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction)
- Series
- Wyndham and Banerjee series #2
- ISBN
- 9781473548749
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Necessary Evil: The thrilling historical crime novel you won’t be able to put down as an audiobook?
A Necessary Evil: The thrilling historical crime novel you won’t be able to put down runs 11.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.5 hours.
Is A Necessary Evil: The thrilling historical crime novel you won’t be able to put down free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Necessary Evil: The thrilling historical crime novel you won’t be able to put down?
A Necessary Evil: The thrilling historical crime novel you won’t be able to put down is narrated by Simon Bubb.
Is A Necessary Evil: The thrilling historical crime novel you won’t be able to put down worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.5 hours, saving 3.7 hours.