Blood at the Root: Audiobook
Book 9 of the Inspector Banks series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Blood at the Root audiobook runs 9.7 hours unabridged, narrated by James Langton (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.7 hours, it runs longer than 67% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Inspector Banks
This is book 9. Books 1 to 8 run 77.4 hours before it; books 1 to 13 run 152.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gallows View | 8.5 hrs |
| 2 | A Dedicated Man | 8.1 hrs |
| 3 | A Necessary End | 10 hrs |
| 4 | The Hanging Valley | 8.5 hrs |
| 5 | Past Reason Hated | 11.1 hrs |
| 6 | Wednesday's Child | 9.2 hrs |
| 7 | Final Account | 10 hrs |
| 8 | Innocent Graves | 12.2 hrs |
| 9 | Blood at the Root | 9.7 hrs |
| 10 | In A Dry Season: A Masterful Crime Thriller of Dark Secrets and Murder in a Lost Yorkshire Village | 16.9 hrs |
| 11 | Cold Is the Grave | 16.2 hrs |
| 12 | Aftermath: Inspector Banks Hunts a Serial Killer—A Gripping British Crime Thriller | 16.4 hrs |
More narrated by James Langton
James Langton narrates 300 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,036 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
5,821 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
Blood at the Root is book 9 of Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series: a 9.7-hour unabridged recording, read by James Langton, released March 16, 2011, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- James Langton
- Released
- March 16, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Inspector Banks #9
- ISBN
- 9781400182671
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Blood at the Root audiobook?
Blood at the Root runs 9.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
Is the Blood at the Root audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Blood at the Root?
Blood at the Root is narrated by James Langton.