Necessary Sins: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Lazare Family series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Necessary Sins audiobook runs 16.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Dallin Bradford (about 10.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 33 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 16.3 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Lazare Family Saga
This is book 1. Books 1 to 4 run 60.7 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Necessary Sins | 16.3 hrs |
| 2 | Lost Saints | 13.6 hrs |
| 3 | Native Stranger | 16.4 hrs |
| 4 | Sweet Medicine | 14.4 hrs |
More narrated by Dallin Bradford
Dallin Bradford narrates 68 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 602 hours in all.
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
1,059 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- All the Light We Cannot See
- The Nightingale
- The Women
- The Four Winds
- The Alice Network
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
Necessary Sins is book 1 of Elizabeth Bell's Lazare Family series: a 16.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Dallin Bradford, released May 12, 2022, on the Historical (Fiction) and Drama shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dallin Bradford
- Released
- May 12, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Drama
- Series
- Lazare Family Saga #1
- ISBN
- 9781737037460
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Necessary Sins audiobook?
Necessary Sins runs 16.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.9 hours.
Is the Necessary Sins audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Necessary Sins?
Necessary Sins is narrated by Dallin Bradford.
Is Necessary Sins worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.9 hours, saving 5.4 hours.