The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year: Audiobook
Book 1 of the A Kiss Merry Kill Novel series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year runs 8.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Zachary Webber and Saskia Maarleveld (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 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 8.4 hours, it is shorter than 52% of the 8,235 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on A Kiss Merry Kill Novel
This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 17.8 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year | 8.4 hrs |
| 2 | It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder | 9.4 hrs |
More narrated by Zachary Webber
Zachary Webber narrates 57 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 594 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
2,118 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Other recordings
- The 2024 recording read by Hunter Johns and Jaimi Barbakoff runs 1.5 hours longer (9.8 hours).
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year is book 1 of Ally Carter's A Kiss Merry Kill Novel series: a 8.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Zachary Webber and Saskia Maarleveld, released September 24, 2024, on the Police & Detective and Rom-Com shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Zachary Webber, Saskia Maarleveld
- Released
- September 24, 2024
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective, Rom-Com, Fiction
- Series
- A Kiss Merry Kill Novel #1
- ISBN
- 9780063276741
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year as an audiobook?
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year runs 8.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.
Is The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year?
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year is narrated by Zachary Webber and Saskia Maarleveld.