The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up: Ann Rules Crime Files Volume 5: Audiobook
Book 5 of the Ann Rule's Crime Files series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up: Ann Rules Crime Files Volume 5 runs 14.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Laural Merlington (about 9.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.3 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 14.3 hours, it runs longer than 91% of the 2,718 True Crime audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Ann Rule's Crime Files
This is book 5. Books 1 to 4 run 60.8 hours before it; books 1 to 11 run 153.2 hours in all.
More narrated by Laural Merlington
Laural Merlington narrates 414 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,846 hours in all.
- Always the Last to Know
- Between Sisters
- The Villa
- Gentle Rogue
- A Loving Scoundrel
About as long, on the True Crime shelf
244 True Crime audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- In Cold Blood
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers
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 End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up: Ann Rules Crime Files Volume 5 is book 5 of Ann Rule's Ann Rule's Crime Files series: a 14.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Laural Merlington, released December 2, 2025, on the True Crime shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Laural Merlington
- Released
- December 2, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- True Crime
- Series
- Ann Rule's Crime Files #5
- ISBN
- 9781668170946
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up: Ann Rules Crime Files Volume 5 as an audiobook?
The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up: Ann Rules Crime Files Volume 5 runs 14.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.5 hours.
Is The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up: Ann Rules Crime Files Volume 5 free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up: Ann Rules Crime Files Volume 5?
The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up: Ann Rules Crime Files Volume 5 is narrated by Laural Merlington.
Is The End Of The Dream The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up: Ann Rules Crime Files Volume 5 worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.5 hours, saving 4.8 hours.