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Once upon a Crime: A Brothers Grimm Mystery by P. J. Brackston

Once upon a Crime: A Brothers Grimm Mystery: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Brothers Grimm Mysteries series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Once upon a Crime: A Brothers Grimm Mystery audiobook runs 8.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Kate Reading (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.5listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2015released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Once upon a Crime: A Brothers Grimm Mystery 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

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What our data says

  • At 8.5 hours, it is shorter than 51% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Brothers Grimm Mysteries

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 8.3 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 25.7 hours in all.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

5,879 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

Once upon a Crime: A Brothers Grimm Mystery is book 2 of P. J. Brackston's Brothers Grimm Mysteries series: a 8.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Kate Reading, released July 15, 2015, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.5 hrs
Narrated by
Kate Reading
Released
July 15, 2015
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective
Series
The Brothers Grimm Mysteries #2
ISBN
9781504609500

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Once upon a Crime: A Brothers Grimm Mystery audiobook?

Once upon a Crime: A Brothers Grimm Mystery runs 8.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.

Is the Once upon a Crime: A Brothers Grimm Mystery audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Once upon a Crime: A Brothers Grimm Mystery?

Once upon a Crime: A Brothers Grimm Mystery is narrated by Kate Reading.