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Mother Knows Best by Karen MacInerney

Mother Knows Best: Audiobook

Book 2 of the A Margie Peterson Mystery series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Mother Knows Best audiobook runs 8.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Cris Dukehart (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.4listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.4 hours of listening.

Days to finish Mother Knows Best at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day17 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 8.4 hours, it is shorter than 52% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on A Margie Peterson Mystery

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9.3 hours before it; books 1 to 2 run 17.7 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Mother's Day Out9.3 hrs
2Mother Knows Best8.4 hrs

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

5,713 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

Mother Knows Best is book 2 of Karen MacInerney's A Margie Peterson Mystery series: a 8.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Cris Dukehart, released March 15, 2016, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.4 hrs
Narrated by
Cris Dukehart
Released
March 15, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective
Series
A Margie Peterson Mystery #2
ISBN
9781511363570

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Mother Knows Best audiobook?

Mother Knows Best runs 8.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.

Is the Mother Knows Best audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Mother Knows Best?

Mother Knows Best is narrated by Cris Dukehart.