The Ambitious City: Audiobook
Book 2 of the MacNeice Mysteries series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Ambitious City runs 13.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Richard Poe (about 9.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 13.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 28 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 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 13.7 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on MacNeice Mysteries
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 8.8 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 43.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erasing Memory | 8.8 hrs |
| 2 | The Ambitious City | 13.7 hrs |
| 3 | Raw Bone | 10.7 hrs |
| 4 | Vantage Point | 10.4 hrs |
More narrated by Richard Poe
Richard Poe narrates 198 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,360 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
1,393 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
The Ambitious City is book 2 of Scott Thornley's MacNeice Mysteries series: a 13.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard Poe, released January 28, 2020, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Richard Poe
- Released
- January 28, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- MacNeice Mysteries #2
- ISBN
- 9781980060208
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Ambitious City as an audiobook?
The Ambitious City runs 13.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.1 hours.
Is The Ambitious City free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Ambitious City?
The Ambitious City is narrated by Richard Poe.
Is The Ambitious City worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.1 hours, saving 4.6 hours.