Fateful Words: Audiobook
Book 8 of the Scottish Bookshop Mystery series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Fateful Words audiobook runs 7.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Susan Boyce (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 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 7.6 hours, it is shorter than 64% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Scottish Bookshop Mystery
This is book 8. Books 1 to 7 run 59.1 hours before it; books 1 to 10 run 83.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Cracked Spine | 8 hrs |
| 2 | Of Books and Bagpipes | 8.2 hrs |
| 3 | Lost Books and Old Bones | 8.8 hrs |
| 4 | The Loch Ness Papers | 9.1 hrs |
| 5 | The Stolen Letter | 8.5 hrs |
| 6 | Deadly Editions | 8.5 hrs |
| 7 | The Burning Pages | 8.1 hrs |
| 8 | Fateful Words | 7.6 hrs |
| 9 | The Poison Pen | 9.3 hrs |
| 10 | Written in Stone | 7.3 hrs |
More narrated by Susan Boyce
Susan Boyce narrates 218 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,836 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
4,583 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
Fateful Words is book 8 of Paige Shelton's Scottish Bookshop Mystery series: a 7.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Susan Boyce, released April 4, 2023, on the Police & Detective and Cozy Mystery shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Susan Boyce
- Released
- April 4, 2023
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective, Cozy Mystery
- Series
- Scottish Bookshop Mystery #8
- ISBN
- 9798765063149
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Fateful Words audiobook?
Fateful Words runs 7.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.
Is the Fateful Words audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Fateful Words?
Fateful Words is narrated by Susan Boyce.