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The Dead Tracks by Tim Weaver

The Dead Tracks: Audiobook

Book 2 of the David Raker Mystery series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Dead Tracks runs 14.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Michael Healy (about 9.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14.2listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 14.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Dead Tracks at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day29 days
1 hour / day15 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×10 days

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 96% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on David Raker Mystery

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9.7 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 36.7 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Chasing the Dead9.7 hrs
2The Dead Tracks14.2 hrs
3Vanished12.8 hrs

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

1,142 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 Dead Tracks is book 2 of Tim Weaver's David Raker Mystery series: a 14.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael Healy, released September 6, 2016, on the Police & Detective and Suspense shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
14.2 hrs
Narrated by
Michael Healy
Released
September 6, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Suspense, Fiction
Series
David Raker Mystery #2
ISBN
9781515976615

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Dead Tracks as an audiobook?

The Dead Tracks runs 14.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.5 hours.

Is The Dead Tracks free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Dead Tracks?

The Dead Tracks is narrated by Michael Healy.

Is The Dead Tracks worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.5 hours, saving 4.7 hours.