Once We Were Brothers: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Once We Were Brothers audiobook runs 13.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Fred Berman (about 9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 13.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 27 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 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 13.5 hours, it runs longer than 94% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart
This is book 1. Books 1 to 6 run 75.2 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once We Were Brothers | 13.5 hrs |
| 2 | Saving Sophie | 13.7 hrs |
| 3 | Karolina's Twins | 10.2 hrs |
| 4 | The Trust | 12.7 hrs |
| 5 | The Girl from Berlin | 13.4 hrs |
| 6 | Defending Britta Stein | 11.8 hrs |
More narrated by Fred Berman
Fred Berman narrates 336 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,368 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
1,546 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 We Were Brothers is book 1 of Ronald H. Balson's Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart series: a 13.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Fred Berman, released November 12, 2013, on the Police & Detective and Legal & Political shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Fred Berman
- Released
- November 12, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective, Legal & Political
- Series
- Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart #1
- ISBN
- 9781427244093
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Once We Were Brothers audiobook?
Once We Were Brothers runs 13.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9 hours.
Is the Once We Were Brothers audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Once We Were Brothers?
Once We Were Brothers is narrated by Fred Berman.
Is Once We Were Brothers worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9 hours, saving 4.5 hours.