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It Takes a Scandal by Caroline Linden

It Takes a Scandal: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Scandal series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the It Takes a Scandal audiobook runs 12.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Veida Dehmlow (about 8.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.6listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish It Takes a Scandal at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day26 days
1 hour / day13 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

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What our data says

  • At 12.6 hours, it runs longer than 73% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Scandal

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 11.6 hours before it; books 1 to 2 run 24.2 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Love and Other Scandals11.6 hrs
2It Takes a Scandal12.6 hrs

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

2,701 Historical (Fiction) 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

It Takes a Scandal is book 2 of Caroline Linden's Scandal series: a 12.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Veida Dehmlow, released July 16, 2019, on the Rom-Com and Historical (Romance) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
12.6 hrs
Narrated by
Veida Dehmlow
Released
July 16, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Rom-Com, Historical (Romance), Historical (Fiction)
Series
Scandal #2
ISBN
9780062982537

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the It Takes a Scandal audiobook?

It Takes a Scandal runs 12.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.4 hours.

Is the It Takes a Scandal audiobook free?

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

Who narrates It Takes a Scandal?

It Takes a Scandal is narrated by Veida Dehmlow.

Is It Takes a Scandal worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.4 hours, saving 4.2 hours.