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Five Bloody Hearts by Joy Ellis

Five Bloody Hearts: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Detective Matt Ballard series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Five Bloody Hearts audiobook runs 9.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.9listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 9.9 hours of listening.

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What our data says

  • At 9.9 hours, it runs longer than 71% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Detective Matt Ballard

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 11.1 hours before it; books 1 to 6 run 64.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Beware the Past11.1 hrs
2Five Bloody Hearts9.9 hrs
3The Dying Light9 hrs
4Marshlight12.8 hrs
5Trick of the Night10.4 hrs
6The Bag of Secrets11.6 hrs

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

5,564 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

Five Bloody Hearts is book 2 of Joy Ellis's Detective Matt Ballard series: a 9.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Matthew Lloyd Davies, released August 20, 2019, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
9.9 hrs
Narrated by
Matthew Lloyd Davies
Released
August 20, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective
Series
Detective Matt Ballard #2
ISBN
9781977383402

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Five Bloody Hearts audiobook?

Five Bloody Hearts runs 9.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.

Is the Five Bloody Hearts audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Five Bloody Hearts?

Five Bloody Hearts is narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies.