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Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White

Sanibel Flats: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Doc Ford series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Sanibel Flats audiobook runs 12.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Dick Hill (about 8.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.2listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2010released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish Sanibel Flats at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day25 days
1 hour / day13 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 12.2 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Doc Ford

This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 35.2 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Sanibel Flats12.2 hrs
2The Heat Islands10.4 hrs
3The Man Who Invented Florida12.6 hrs

More narrated by Dick Hill

Dick Hill narrates 355 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,167 hours in all.

  • The Black EchoMichael Connelly · 13.3 hrs
  • Killing FloorLee Child · 17.8 hrs
  • The Black IceMichael Connelly · 11.2 hrs
  • The Concrete BlondeMichael Connelly · 14 hrs
  • The Last CoyoteMichael Connelly · 12.9 hrs

All Dick Hill audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

2,739 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

Sanibel Flats is book 1 of Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford series: a 12.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Dick Hill, released May 17, 2010, on the Police & Detective and Suspense shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
12.2 hrs
Narrated by
Dick Hill
Released
May 17, 2010
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Suspense, Fiction
Series
Doc Ford #1
ISBN
9781400186686

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Sanibel Flats audiobook?

Sanibel Flats runs 12.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.1 hours.

Is the Sanibel Flats audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Sanibel Flats?

Sanibel Flats is narrated by Dick Hill.

Is Sanibel Flats worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.1 hours, saving 4.1 hours.