A Simple Murder: Audiobook
Book 1 of the A Will Rees Mystery series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Simple Murder runs 8.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Richard Waterhouse (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 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 8.9 hours, it is shorter than 69% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on A Will Rees Mystery
This is book 1. Books 1 to 11 run 108.4 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Simple Murder | 8.9 hrs |
| 2 | Death of a Dyer | 11.6 hrs |
| 3 | Cradle to Grave | 11 hrs |
| 4 | Death in Salem | 11.1 hrs |
| 5 | The Devil's Cold Dish | 9.9 hrs |
| 6 | The Shaker Murders | 9.4 hrs |
| 7 | Simply Dead | 9.5 hrs |
| 8 | A Circle of Dead Girls | 10.3 hrs |
| 9 | Death in the Great Dismal | 9 hrs |
| 10 | Murder on Principle | 9 hrs |
| 11 | Murder, Sweet Murder | 8.8 hrs |
More narrated by Richard Waterhouse
Richard Waterhouse narrates 17 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 134 hours in all.
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
2,509 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 Simple Murder is book 1 of Eleanor Kuhns's A Will Rees Mystery series: a 8.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard Waterhouse, released May 1, 2012, on the Historical (Fiction) and Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Richard Waterhouse
- Released
- May 1, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Mystery, Thriller & Horror
- Series
- A Will Rees Mystery #1
- ISBN
- 9781620640135
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Simple Murder as an audiobook?
A Simple Murder runs 8.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is A Simple Murder free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Simple Murder?
A Simple Murder is narrated by Richard Waterhouse.