Dead Man's Ransom: Audiobook
Book 9 of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dead Man's Ransom audiobook runs 8.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Patrick Tull (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.3 hours, it is shorter than 55% of the 53,570 Mystery, Thriller & Horror audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
This is book 9. Books 1 to 8 run 74.4 hours before it; books 1 to 15 run 131.8 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Morbid Taste for Bones | 8.8 hrs |
| 2 | One Corpse Too Many | 9.9 hrs |
| 3 | Monk's Hood | 9.6 hrs |
| 4 | Saint Peter's Fair | 9.5 hrs |
| 5 | The Leper of Saint Giles | 9 hrs |
| 6 | The Virgin in the Ice | 9.4 hrs |
| 7 | The Sanctuary Sparrow | 9.6 hrs |
| 8 | The Devil's Novice | 8.7 hrs |
| 9 | Dead Man's Ransom | 8.3 hrs |
| 10 | The Pilgrim of Hate | 8.2 hrs |
| 11 | An Excellent Mystery | 8.4 hrs |
| 12 | The Raven in the Foregate | 8.2 hrs |
More narrated by Patrick Tull
Patrick Tull narrates 56 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 622 hours in all.
About as long, on the Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelf
11,370 Mystery, Thriller & Horror 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 Man's Ransom is book 9 of Ellis Peters's Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series: a 8.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Patrick Tull, released December 4, 2009, on the Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Patrick Tull
- Released
- December 4, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery, Thriller & Horror
- Series
- Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #9
- ISBN
- 9781440788635
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Dead Man's Ransom audiobook?
Dead Man's Ransom runs 8.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.
Is the Dead Man's Ransom audiobook free?
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Who narrates Dead Man's Ransom?
Dead Man's Ransom is narrated by Patrick Tull.