No Defense: Audiobook
Book 5 of the Barbara Holloway Mysteries series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the No Defense audiobook runs 11.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Marguerite Gavin (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 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 11.9 hours, it runs longer than 74% of the 2,576 Legal & Political audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Barbara Holloway Mysteries
This is book 5. Books 1 to 4 run 55.3 hours before it; books 1 to 14 run 167.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos | 15.4 hrs |
| 2 | The Best Defense: A Barbara Holloway Novel | 11.1 hrs |
| 3 | Malice Prepense | 15.8 hrs |
| 4 | Defense for the Devil | 13 hrs |
| 5 | No Defense | 11.9 hrs |
| 6 | Desperate Measures | 13.1 hrs |
| 7 | Clear and Convincing Proof | 8.3 hrs |
| 8 | The Unbidden Truth | 11.1 hrs |
| 9 | Sleight of Hand: A Barbara Holloway Mystery | 10.1 hrs |
| 10 | A Wrongful Death | 9.5 hrs |
| 11 | Cold Case | 10 hrs |
| 12 | Heaven Is High: A Barbara Holloway Novel | 8.9 hrs |
More narrated by Marguerite Gavin
Marguerite Gavin narrates 420 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,914 hours in all.
About as long, on the Legal & Political shelf
581 Legal & Political audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Judge's List
- The Terminal List
- The Guardians
- The President Is Missing
- The Broker
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
No Defense is book 5 of Kate Wilhelm's Barbara Holloway Mysteries series: a 11.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Marguerite Gavin, released May 3, 2011, on the Legal & Political shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Marguerite Gavin
- Released
- May 3, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Legal & Political
- Series
- The Barbara Holloway Mysteries #5
- ISBN
- 9781483055176
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the No Defense audiobook?
No Defense runs 11.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.
Is the No Defense audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates No Defense?
No Defense is narrated by Marguerite Gavin.
Is No Defense worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.