The Children Return: Audiobook
Book 7 of the Bruno, Chief of Police series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Children Return runs 9.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.7 hours, it runs longer than 84% of the 5,716 Cozy Mystery audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Bruno, Chief of Police
This is book 7. Books 1 to 6 run 59.4 hours before it; books 1 to 16 run 160.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruno, Chief of Police | 8.3 hrs |
| 2 | The Dark Vineyard | 10 hrs |
| 3 | Black Diamond | 9.4 hrs |
| 4 | The Crowded Grave | 10.2 hrs |
| 5 | The Devil's Cave | 11.1 hrs |
| 6 | The Resistance Man | 10.3 hrs |
| 7 | The Children Return | 9.7 hrs |
| 8 | The Patriarch | 10.4 hrs |
| 9 | Fatal Pursuit | 9.6 hrs |
| 10 | The Templars' Last Secret | 10 hrs |
| 11 | A Taste for Vengeance | 11 hrs |
| 12 | The Body in the Castle Well | 10.9 hrs |
More narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie
Robert Ian Mackenzie narrates 23 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 205 hours in all.
About as long, on the Cozy Mystery shelf
1,142 Cozy Mystery 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 Children Return is book 7 of Martin Walker's Bruno, Chief of Police series: a 9.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Robert Ian Mackenzie, released April 28, 2015, on the Cozy Mystery shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Robert Ian Mackenzie
- Released
- April 28, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Cozy Mystery
- Series
- Bruno, Chief of Police #7
- ISBN
- 9781490661988
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Children Return as an audiobook?
The Children Return runs 9.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
Is The Children Return free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Children Return?
The Children Return is narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie.