Taking Shots: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Assassins series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Taking Shots audiobook runs 14.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Lucy Malone (about 9.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 30 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 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 14.8 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 16,241 Modern audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Assassins
This is book 1. Books 1 to 7 run 105.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taking Shots | 14.8 hrs |
| 2 | Trying To Score | 15 hrs |
| 3 | Empty Net | 13.3 hrs |
| 4 | Blue Lines | 12.3 hrs |
| 5 | Breaking Away | 14.7 hrs |
| 6 | Laces and Lace | 18 hrs |
| 7 | Overtime | 17.2 hrs |
More narrated by Lucy Malone
Lucy Malone narrates 62 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 598 hours in all.
About as long, on the Modern shelf
613 Modern 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
Taking Shots is book 1 of Toni Aleo's Assassins series: a 14.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Lucy Malone, released December 30, 2013, on the Modern and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Lucy Malone
- Released
- December 30, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Modern, Fiction
- Series
- Assassins #1
- ISBN
- 9781452687957
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Taking Shots audiobook?
Taking Shots runs 14.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.8 hours.
Is the Taking Shots audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Taking Shots?
Taking Shots is narrated by Lucy Malone.
Is Taking Shots worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.8 hours, saving 4.9 hours.