The Cracked Spine: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Scottish Bookshop Mystery series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Cracked Spine runs 8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Carrington MacDuffie (about 5.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8 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 8 hours, it is shorter than 59% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Scottish Bookshop Mystery
This is book 1. Books 1 to 10 run 83.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Cracked Spine | 8 hrs |
| 2 | Of Books and Bagpipes | 8.2 hrs |
| 3 | Lost Books and Old Bones | 8.8 hrs |
| 4 | The Loch Ness Papers | 9.1 hrs |
| 5 | The Stolen Letter | 8.5 hrs |
| 6 | Deadly Editions | 8.5 hrs |
| 7 | The Burning Pages | 8.1 hrs |
| 8 | Fateful Words | 7.6 hrs |
| 9 | The Poison Pen | 9.3 hrs |
| 10 | Written in Stone | 7.3 hrs |
More narrated by Carrington MacDuffie
Carrington MacDuffie narrates 130 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,157 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
5,128 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Left To Die (An Adele Sharp Mystery—Book One)
- Open Season
- The 18th Abduction
- The People vs. Alex Cross
- Mary, Mary
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 Cracked Spine is book 1 of Paige Shelton's Scottish Bookshop Mystery series: a 8-hour unabridged recording, read by Carrington MacDuffie, released March 29, 2016, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Carrington MacDuffie
- Released
- March 29, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Scottish Bookshop Mystery #1
- ISBN
- 9781515970668
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Cracked Spine as an audiobook?
The Cracked Spine runs 8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.3 hours.
Is The Cracked Spine free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Cracked Spine?
The Cracked Spine is narrated by Carrington MacDuffie.