One Step Ahead: Audiobook
Book 1 of the DSI Jeffrey Brandt Murders series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the One Step Ahead audiobook runs 7.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Chris Macdonnell (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 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 7.5 hours, it is shorter than 66% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on DSI Jeffrey Brandt Murders Trilogy
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 22.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Step Ahead | 7.5 hrs |
| 2 | Hide and Seek | 7 hrs |
| 3 | Smoke and Mirrors | 7.8 hrs |
More narrated by Chris Macdonnell
Chris Macdonnell narrates 57 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 572 hours in all.
- Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
- War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II
- Tiger Battalion 507: Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment
- Wicca for One: The Path of Solitary Witchcraft
- Pure, White and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
4,374 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- 3rd Degree
- Open Season
- The Beach House
- Twisted Twenty-Six
- The 18th Abduction
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
One Step Ahead is book 1 of Denver Murphy's DSI Jeffrey Brandt Murders series: a 7.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Chris Macdonnell, released September 10, 2019, on the Police & Detective and Suspense shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Chris Macdonnell
- Released
- September 10, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective, Suspense, Fiction
- Series
- DSI Jeffrey Brandt Murders Trilogy #1
- ISBN
- 9781515941934
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the One Step Ahead audiobook?
One Step Ahead runs 7.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.
Is the One Step Ahead audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates One Step Ahead?
One Step Ahead is narrated by Chris Macdonnell.