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The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series by Ann Cleeves

The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series: Audiobook

Book 11 of the Vera Stanhope series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series runs 11.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Janine Birkett (about 7.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.7listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2024released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series at common listening paces
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1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 11.7 hours, it runs longer than 87% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

3,234 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 Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series is book 11 of Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series: a 11.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Janine Birkett, released August 29, 2024, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.7 hrs
Narrated by
Janine Birkett
Released
August 29, 2024
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective
Series
Vera Stanhope #11
ISBN
9781529077773

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series as an audiobook?

The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series runs 11.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.8 hours.

Is The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series?

The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series is narrated by Janine Birkett.

Is The Dark Wives: Crack the Case in the Suspenseful Eleventh Murder Mystery in the Vera Stanhope Series worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.8 hours, saving 3.9 hours.