The Hanging Garden: Audiobook
Book 9 of the Inspector Rebus series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Hanging Garden runs 11.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Michael Page (about 7.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 23 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 11.4 hours, it runs longer than 85% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Inspector Rebus
This is book 9. Books 1 to 8 run 78.7 hours before it; books 1 to 9 run 90.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knots and Crosses | 6 hrs |
| 2 | Hide and Seek | 7.6 hrs |
| 3 | Tooth and Nail | 9.4 hrs |
| 4 | Strip Jack: Inspector Rebus, Book 4 | 10.8 hrs |
| 5 | The Black Book | 9.9 hrs |
| 6 | Mortal Causes | 9.6 hrs |
| 7 | Let It Bleed | 10.6 hrs |
| 8 | Black and Blue | 14.9 hrs |
| 9 | The Hanging Garden | 11.4 hrs |
More narrated by Michael Page
Michael Page narrates 310 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,758 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
3,674 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 Hanging Garden is book 9 of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series: a 11.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Michael Page, released January 14, 2014, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Michael Page
- Released
- January 14, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Inspector Rebus #9
- ISBN
- 9781480523821
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Hanging Garden as an audiobook?
The Hanging Garden runs 11.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.6 hours.
Is The Hanging Garden free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Hanging Garden?
The Hanging Garden is narrated by Michael Page.
Is The Hanging Garden worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.6 hours, saving 3.8 hours.