Cold Is the Grave: Audiobook
Book 11 of the Inspector Banks series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Cold Is the Grave audiobook runs 16.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Ron Keith (about 10.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.2 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 |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 16.2 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Inspector Banks
This is book 11. Books 1 to 10 run 103.9 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
532 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
Cold Is the Grave is book 11 of Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series: a 16.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Ron Keith, released November 25, 2016, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ron Keith
- Released
- November 25, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Inspector Banks #11
- ISBN
- 9781436126663
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Cold Is the Grave audiobook?
Cold Is the Grave runs 16.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.8 hours.
Is the Cold Is the Grave audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Cold Is the Grave?
Cold Is the Grave is narrated by Ron Keith.
Is Cold Is the Grave worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.8 hours, saving 5.4 hours.