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Good Man Friday by Barbara Hambly

Good Man Friday: Audiobook

Book 12 of the Benjamin January Mysteries series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Good Man Friday audiobook runs 10 hours unabridged, narrated by Kirsten Potter (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10listening hrs
Suspensestore shelf
2013released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

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What our data says

  • At 10 hours, it runs longer than 64% of the 13,042 Suspense audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Benjamin January Mysteries

This is book 12. Books 1 to 11 run 126.1 hours before it; books 1 to 12 run 136 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1A Free Man of Color11.7 hrs
2Fever Season12.6 hrs
3Graveyard Dust12.9 hrs
4Sold Down the River13 hrs
5Die upon a Kiss14.1 hrs
6Wet Grave10.9 hrs
7Days of the Dead12.4 hrs
8Dead Water10.2 hrs
9Dead and Buried9.4 hrs
10The Shirt on His Back9.4 hrs
11Ran Away9.5 hrs
12Good Man Friday10 hrs

More narrated by Kirsten Potter

Kirsten Potter narrates 376 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,907 hours in all.

All Kirsten Potter audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Suspense shelf

3,171 Suspense 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

Good Man Friday is book 12 of Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January Mysteries series: a 10-hour unabridged recording, read by Kirsten Potter, released May 1, 2013, on the Suspense and BIPOC Stories & Voices shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10 hrs
Narrated by
Kirsten Potter
Released
May 1, 2013
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Suspense, BIPOC Stories & Voices
Series
The Benjamin January Mysteries #12
ISBN
9781666592542

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Good Man Friday audiobook?

Good Man Friday runs 10 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.

Is the Good Man Friday audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Good Man Friday?

Good Man Friday is narrated by Kirsten Potter.

Is Good Man Friday worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.6 hours, saving 3.3 hours.