The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope Mystery: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Vera Stanhope series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope Mystery runs 14.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Anne Dover (about 9.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 29 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 14.2 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 8,235 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Vera Stanhope
This is book 1. Books 1 to 11 run 124.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope Mystery | 14.2 hrs |
| 2 | Telling Tales: A Vera Stanhope Mystery | 11.6 hrs |
| 3 | Hidden Depths: A Vera Stanhope Mystery | 10.9 hrs |
| 4 | Silent Voices: A Vera Stanhope Mystery | 10.2 hrs |
| 5 | The Glass Room: The Fifth Gritty Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series | 10.6 hrs |
| 6 | Harbour Street: A Vera Stanhope Mystery | 10.2 hrs |
| 7 | The Moth Catcher: A Vera Stanhope Mystery | 11.2 hrs |
| 8 | The Seagull: A Vera Stanhope Mystery | 11.3 hrs |
| 9 | The Darkest Evening: The Ninth Chilling Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series | 11.3 hrs |
| 10 | The Rising Tide: A Vera Stanhope Novel | 11.5 hrs |
| 11 | The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series | 11.7 hrs |
More narrated by Anne Dover
Anne Dover narrates 47 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 507 hours in all.
- Hidden Depths: A Vera Stanhope Mystery
- To Gain What's Lost
- A Mansion for Murder
- Little Girl Lost: A gripping and emotional historical novel from the Sunday Times bestseller
- All That Is Lost Between Us
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
434 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick
- The Black Echo
- Finders Keepers
- End of Watch
- The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander Novel
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope Mystery is book 1 of Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series: a 14.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Anne Dover, released February 21, 2017, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Anne Dover
- Released
- February 21, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Vera Stanhope #1
- ISBN
- 9781427288394
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope Mystery as an audiobook?
The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope Mystery runs 14.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.4 hours.
Is The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope Mystery free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope Mystery?
The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope Mystery is narrated by Anne Dover.
Is The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope Mystery worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.4 hours, saving 4.7 hours.