Dead Calm: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Beaver Island Mysteries series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dead Calm audiobook runs 9.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Deborah Balm and Petrea Burchard (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 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 9.1 hours, it runs longer than 58% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Beaver Island Mysteries
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 36.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vitamin Sea | 9 hrs |
| 2 | Dead Calm | 9.1 hrs |
| 3 | High and Dry | 9.5 hrs |
| 4 | Water Town | 8.8 hrs |
More narrated by Deborah Balm
Deborah Balm narrates 92 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 799 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
6,055 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
Dead Calm is book 2 of Maia Ross's Beaver Island Mysteries series: a 9.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Deborah Balm and Petrea Burchard, released March 23, 2026, on the Police & Detective and Cozy Mystery shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Deborah Balm, Petrea Burchard
- Released
- March 23, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective, Cozy Mystery
- Series
- Beaver Island Mysteries #2
- ISBN
- 9798331989088
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Dead Calm audiobook?
Dead Calm runs 9.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is the Dead Calm audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Dead Calm?
Dead Calm is narrated by Deborah Balm and Petrea Burchard.