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Surface Tension by Christine Kling

Surface Tension: Audiobook

Book 1 of the South Florida Adventure series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Surface Tension audiobook runs 10.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Rosemary Benson (about 7.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.6listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish Surface Tension at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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

What our data says

  • At 10.6 hours, it runs longer than 78% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on South Florida Adventure Series

This is book 1. Books 1 to 5 run 49.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Surface Tension10.6 hrs
2Cross Current11.3 hrs
3Bitter End10 hrs
4Wreckers' Key9.7 hrs
5Mourning Tide8.3 hrs

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

4,740 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

Surface Tension is book 1 of Christine Kling's South Florida Adventure series: a 10.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Rosemary Benson, released December 11, 2019, on the Police & Detective and Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.6 hrs
Narrated by
Rosemary Benson
Released
December 11, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Action & Adventure (Fiction)
Series
South Florida Adventure Series #1
ISBN
9781942228059

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Surface Tension audiobook?

Surface Tension runs 10.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.1 hours.

Is the Surface Tension audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Surface Tension?

Surface Tension is narrated by Rosemary Benson.

Is Surface Tension worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.1 hours, saving 3.5 hours.