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Once Upon a Seaside Murder by Maggie Blackburn

Once Upon a Seaside Murder: Audiobook

Book 2 of the A Beach Reads Mystery series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Once Upon a Seaside Murder audiobook runs 8.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Christa Lewis (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.5listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Once Upon a Seaside Murder 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 8.5 hours, it runs longer than 50% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on A Beach Reads Mystery

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 8.7 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 25.2 hours in all.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

5,886 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 Seaside Murder is book 2 of Maggie Blackburn's A Beach Reads Mystery series: a 8.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Christa Lewis, released October 12, 2021, on the Police & Detective and Cozy Mystery shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.5 hrs
Narrated by
Christa Lewis
Released
October 12, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Cozy Mystery
Series
A Beach Reads Mystery #2
ISBN
9781666520866

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Once Upon a Seaside Murder audiobook?

Once Upon a Seaside Murder runs 8.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.

Is the Once Upon a Seaside Murder audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Once Upon a Seaside Murder?

Once Upon a Seaside Murder is narrated by Christa Lewis.