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Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series by Ann Cleeves

Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Vera Stanhope series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series audiobook runs 12 hours unabridged, narrated by Janine Birkett (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2024released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12 hours of listening.

Days to finish Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day24 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 12 hours, it runs longer than 88% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

2,965 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

Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series is book 2 of Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series: a 12-hour unabridged recording, read by Janine Birkett, released January 1, 2024, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
12 hrs
Narrated by
Janine Birkett
Released
January 1, 2024
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective
Series
Vera Stanhope #2
ISBN
9781035012725

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series audiobook?

Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series runs 12 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.

Is the Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series?

Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series is narrated by Janine Birkett.

Is Telling Tales: The Second Unforgettable Crime Novel in the Vera Stanhope Series worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.