The Body on the Beach: Audiobook
Book 1 of the An Island Mystery series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Body on the Beach runs 6.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Nicol Zanzarella (about 4.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 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 6.9 hours, it is shorter than 73% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on An Island Mystery
This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 16.4 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Body on the Beach | 6.9 hrs |
| 2 | Death on the Beach | 9.5 hrs |
More narrated by Nicol Zanzarella
Nicol Zanzarella narrates 237 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,369 hours in all.
- The Last Time I Lied
- Ruthless Game
- Those Girls
- The Woman Inside
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
3,512 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Killing Game (An Alexa Chase Suspense Thriller—Book 1)
- 3rd Degree
- Later
- The Beach House
- Twisted Twenty-Six
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 Body on the Beach is book 1 of Anna Johannsen's An Island Mystery series: a 6.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Nicol Zanzarella, released September 24, 2019, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Nicol Zanzarella
- Released
- September 24, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- An Island Mystery #1
- ISBN
- 9781978689473
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Body on the Beach as an audiobook?
The Body on the Beach runs 6.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.6 hours.
Is The Body on the Beach free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Body on the Beach?
The Body on the Beach is narrated by Nicol Zanzarella.