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Punishment by Scott J. Holliday

Punishment: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Detective Barnes series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Punishment audiobook runs 8.2 hours unabridged, narrated by JD Jackson (about 5.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.2listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2018released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish Punishment 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 8.2 hours, it is shorter than 56% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Detective Barnes

This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 17.2 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Punishment8.2 hrs
2Machine City9 hrs

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

5,441 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

Punishment is book 1 of Scott J. Holliday's Detective Barnes series: a 8.2-hour unabridged recording, read by JD Jackson, released February 1, 2018, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.2 hrs
Narrated by
JD Jackson
Released
February 1, 2018
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective
Series
Detective Barnes #1
ISBN
9781543640199

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Punishment audiobook?

Punishment runs 8.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.4 hours.

Is the Punishment audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Punishment?

Punishment is narrated by JD Jackson.