The Boy With the Painful Tattoo: Audiobook
Book 3 of the Holmes & Moriarity series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Boy With the Painful Tattoo runs 7.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Kevin R. Free (about 5.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 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 7.6 hours, it is shorter than 64% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Holmes & Moriarity
This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 15.1 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 22.7 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somebody Killed His Editor | 7.6 hrs |
| 2 | All She Wrote | 7.4 hrs |
| 3 | The Boy With the Painful Tattoo | 7.6 hrs |
More narrated by Kevin R. Free
Kevin R. Free narrates 367 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,886 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
4,638 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 Boy With the Painful Tattoo is book 3 of Josh Lanyon's Holmes & Moriarity series: a 7.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Kevin R. Free, released January 6, 2015, on the Police & Detective and LGBTQ+ (Romance) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Kevin R. Free
- Released
- January 6, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective, LGBTQ+ (Romance), LGBTQ+ (Fiction)
- Series
- Holmes & Moriarity #3
- ISBN
- 9798347765362
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Boy With the Painful Tattoo as an audiobook?
The Boy With the Painful Tattoo runs 7.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.1 hours.
Is The Boy With the Painful Tattoo free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Boy With the Painful Tattoo?
The Boy With the Painful Tattoo is narrated by Kevin R. Free.