Past Reason Hated: Audiobook
Book 5 of the Inspector Banks series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Past Reason Hated audiobook runs 11.1 hours unabridged, narrated by James Langton (about 7.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 23 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 11.1 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Inspector Banks
This is book 5. Books 1 to 4 run 35.1 hours before it; books 1 to 13 run 152.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gallows View | 8.5 hrs |
| 2 | A Dedicated Man | 8.1 hrs |
| 3 | A Necessary End | 10 hrs |
| 4 | The Hanging Valley | 8.5 hrs |
| 5 | Past Reason Hated | 11.1 hrs |
| 6 | Wednesday's Child | 9.2 hrs |
| 7 | Final Account | 10 hrs |
| 8 | Innocent Graves | 12.2 hrs |
| 9 | Blood at the Root | 9.7 hrs |
| 10 | In A Dry Season: A Masterful Crime Thriller of Dark Secrets and Murder in a Lost Yorkshire Village | 16.9 hrs |
| 11 | Cold Is the Grave | 16.2 hrs |
| 12 | Aftermath: Inspector Banks Hunts a Serial Killer—A Gripping British Crime Thriller | 16.4 hrs |
More narrated by James Langton
James Langton narrates 300 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,036 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
4,156 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
Past Reason Hated is book 5 of Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series: a 11.1-hour unabridged recording, read by James Langton, released December 24, 2010, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- James Langton
- Released
- December 24, 2010
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Inspector Banks #5
- ISBN
- 9781400182732
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Past Reason Hated audiobook?
Past Reason Hated runs 11.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.4 hours.
Is the Past Reason Hated audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Past Reason Hated?
Past Reason Hated is narrated by James Langton.
Is Past Reason Hated worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.4 hours, saving 3.7 hours.