A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #1: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Ann Rule's Crime Files series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #1 runs 16.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Laural Merlington (about 11.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 34 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 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 16.6 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 2,718 True Crime audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Ann Rule's Crime Files
This is book 1. Books 1 to 11 run 153.2 hours in all.
More narrated by Laural Merlington
Laural Merlington narrates 414 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,846 hours in all.
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- Between Sisters
- The Villa
- Gentle Rogue
- A Loving Scoundrel
About as long, on the True Crime shelf
143 True Crime audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
- Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- The Irishman (Movie Tie-In): Originally published as: I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
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 Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #1 is book 1 of Ann Rule's Ann Rule's Crime Files series: a 16.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Laural Merlington, released December 2, 2025, on the True Crime shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Laural Merlington
- Released
- December 2, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- True Crime
- Series
- Ann Rule's Crime Files #1
- ISBN
- 9781668171189
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #1 as an audiobook?
A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #1 runs 16.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.1 hours.
Is A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #1 free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #1?
A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #1 is narrated by Laural Merlington.
Is A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #1 worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.1 hours, saving 5.5 hours.