The Last Word: Audiobook
Book 3 of the Books by the Bay Mystery series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Last Word runs 9.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Karen White (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 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 9.6 hours, it runs longer than 67% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Books by the Bay Mystery
This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 20.5 hours before it; books 1 to 8 run 78.2 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Killer Plot | 11 hrs |
| 2 | A Deadly Cliché | 9.5 hrs |
| 3 | The Last Word | 9.6 hrs |
| 4 | Written in Stone | 9.6 hrs |
| 5 | Poisoned Prose | 9.5 hrs |
| 6 | Lethal Letters | 10.1 hrs |
| 7 | Writing All Wrongs | 9.3 hrs |
| 8 | Killer Characters | 9.4 hrs |
More narrated by Karen White
Karen White narrates 335 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,336 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
5,840 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 Last Word is book 3 of Ellery Adams's Books by the Bay Mystery series: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Karen White, released September 22, 2015, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Karen White
- Released
- September 22, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Books by the Bay Mystery #3
- ISBN
- 9781494586249
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Last Word as an audiobook?
The Last Word runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
Is The Last Word free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Last Word?
The Last Word is narrated by Karen White.