The Ruin: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Cormac Reilly series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Ruin runs 10.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Aoife McMahon (about 6.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 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 10.4 hours, it runs longer than 76% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Cormac Reilly
This is book 1. Books 1 to 4 run 43.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Ruin | 10.4 hrs |
| 2 | The Scholar | 10.3 hrs |
| 3 | The Good Turn | 10.8 hrs |
| 4 | The Unquiet Grave | 12 hrs |
More narrated by Aoife McMahon
Aoife McMahon narrates 71 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 659 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
4,908 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 Ruin is book 1 of Dervla McTiernan's Cormac Reilly series: a 10.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Aoife McMahon, released March 19, 2018, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Aoife McMahon
- Released
- March 19, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Cormac Reilly #1
- ISBN
- 9781460797938
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Ruin as an audiobook?
The Ruin runs 10.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.9 hours.
Is The Ruin free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Ruin?
The Ruin is narrated by Aoife McMahon.
Is The Ruin worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.9 hours, saving 3.5 hours.