The Books Insiderindependent audiobook data
Mystery by Peter Straub

Mystery: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Blue Rose series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Mystery audiobook runs 19.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Patrick Lawlor (about 13.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

19.7listening hrs
Horrorstore shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 19.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish Mystery at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day40 days
1 hour / day20 days
2 hours / day10 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×14 days

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

What our data says

  • At 19.7 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 5,506 Horror audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Blue Rose Trilogy

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 23 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 70.2 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Koko23 hrs
2Mystery19.7 hrs
3The Throat27.5 hrs

About as long, on the Horror shelf

96 Horror 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

Mystery is book 2 of Peter Straub's Blue Rose series: a 19.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Patrick Lawlor, released November 1, 2011, on the Horror shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
19.7 hrs
Narrated by
Patrick Lawlor
Released
November 1, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Horror
Series
Blue Rose Trilogy #2
ISBN
9781455829903

How to listen to Mystery free

New members at audiobooks.com get three free audiobooks with the trial.

Separately, the store's catalog carries more than 10,000 audiobooks that are always free to stream.

Start listening free

Questions listeners ask

How long is the Mystery audiobook?

Mystery runs 19.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13.1 hours.

Is the Mystery audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Mystery?

Mystery is narrated by Patrick Lawlor.

Is Mystery worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13.1 hours, saving 6.6 hours.