The Retribution: Audiobook
Book 7 of the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Retribution runs 12.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Gerard Doyle (about 8.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 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 12.2 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
This is book 7. Books 1 to 6 run 90.8 hours before it; books 1 to 11 run 154.4 hours in all.
More narrated by Gerard Doyle
Gerard Doyle narrates 168 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,669 hours in all.
- Eldest: Inheritance, Book II
- Inheritance
- Murtagh: The World of Eragon
- The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Volume 1, Eragon
- The Looking Glass Wars
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
2,754 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Black Echo
- The Thursday Murder Club: (The Thursday Murder Club 1)
- Winterkill
- The Thursday Murder Club
- Finders Keepers
Other recordings
- The 2011 recording read by Saul Reichlin runs 0.7 hours longer (12.9 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 Retribution is book 7 of Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series: a 12.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Gerard Doyle, released March 9, 2012, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gerard Doyle
- Released
- March 9, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Tony Hill and Carol Jordan #7
- ISBN
- 9781464028991
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Retribution as an audiobook?
The Retribution runs 12.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.1 hours.
Is The Retribution free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Retribution?
The Retribution is narrated by Gerard Doyle.
Is The Retribution worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.1 hours, saving 4.1 hours.