The Books Insiderindependent audiobook data
The Distant Dead by Heather Young

The Distant Dead: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Distant Dead runs 11.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Eva Kaminsky and Charlie Thurston and others (about 7.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.2listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Distant Dead at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day23 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 11.2 hours, it runs longer than 84% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

3,850 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2022 recording read by Laurel Lefkow runs 0.5 hours longer (11.7 hours).

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 Distant Dead is an audiobook by Heather Young: a 11.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Eva Kaminsky, Charlie Thurston and Cassandra Campbell and others, released June 9, 2020, on the Police & Detective and Westerns & War shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.2 hrs
Narrated by
Eva Kaminsky, Charlie Thurston, Cassandra Campbell, Jim Meskimen
Released
June 9, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Westerns & War, Literary Fiction
ISBN
9780063016101

How to listen to The Distant Dead free

New members at audiobooks.com get three free audiobooks with the trial.

Separately, the store's catalog carries more than 10,000 audiobooks that are always free to stream.

Start listening free

Questions listeners ask

How long is The Distant Dead as an audiobook?

The Distant Dead runs 11.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.5 hours.

Is The Distant Dead free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Distant Dead?

The Distant Dead is narrated by Eva Kaminsky, Charlie Thurston, Cassandra Campbell and Jim Meskimen.

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

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.5 hours, saving 3.7 hours.