Close to Home: Audiobook
Book 13 of the Inspector Banks series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Close to Home audiobook runs 16.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Ron Keith (about 10.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 33 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 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 16.1 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Inspector Banks
This is book 13. Books 1 to 12 run 136.5 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 Ron Keith
Ron Keith narrates 34 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 314 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
543 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
Close to Home is book 13 of Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series: a 16.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Ron Keith, released February 4, 2008, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ron Keith
- Released
- February 4, 2008
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Inspector Banks #13
- ISBN
- 9781449801670
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Close to Home audiobook?
Close to Home runs 16.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.7 hours.
Is the Close to Home audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Close to Home?
Close to Home is narrated by Ron Keith.
Is Close to Home worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.7 hours, saving 5.4 hours.