Empty Promises: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #7: Audiobook
Book 7 of the Ann Rule's Crime Files series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Empty Promises: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #7 audiobook runs 16.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Laural Merlington (about 10.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.3 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 16.3 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 2,718 True Crime audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Ann Rule's Crime Files
This is book 7. Books 1 to 6 run 86.6 hours before it; books 1 to 11 run 153.2 hours in all.
More narrated by Laural Merlington
Laural Merlington narrates 414 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,846 hours in all.
- Always the Last to Know
- Between Sisters
- The Villa
- Gentle Rogue
- A Loving Scoundrel
About as long, on the True Crime shelf
157 True Crime audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
- The Irishman (Movie Tie-In): Originally published as: I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
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
Empty Promises: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #7 is book 7 of Ann Rule's Ann Rule's Crime Files series: a 16.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Laural Merlington, released February 24, 2026, on the True Crime shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Laural Merlington
- Released
- February 24, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- True Crime
- Series
- Ann Rule's Crime Files #7
- ISBN
- 9781668171004
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Empty Promises: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #7 audiobook?
Empty Promises: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #7 runs 16.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.9 hours.
Is the Empty Promises: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #7 audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Empty Promises: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #7?
Empty Promises: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #7 is narrated by Laural Merlington.
Is Empty Promises: Anne Rule's Crime Files, #7 worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.9 hours, saving 5.4 hours.