The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Detective Elin Warner series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick runs 11.9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Gemma Whelan (about 7.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 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 11.9 hours, it runs longer than 88% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Detective Elin Warner Series
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 34.5 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick | 11.9 hrs |
| 2 | The Retreat | 10.6 hrs |
| 3 | The Wilds | 12 hrs |
More narrated by Gemma Whelan
Gemma Whelan narrates 75 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 701 hours in all.
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- The Murders at Fleat House: A compelling mystery from the author of the million-copy bestselling The Seven Sisters series
- Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
- Don't Let Him In: The addictive #1 Sunday Times bestselling psychological thriller from the author of None of This is True
- North and South: Penguin Classics
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
3,049 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 Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick is book 1 of Sarah Pearse's Detective Elin Warner series: a 11.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Gemma Whelan, released February 4, 2021, on the Police & Detective and Suspense shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gemma Whelan
- Released
- February 4, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective, Suspense, Celebrity Bookclub Picks
- Series
- Detective Elin Warner Series #1
- ISBN
- 9781473580725
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick as an audiobook?
The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick runs 11.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.9 hours.
Is The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick?
The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick is narrated by Gemma Whelan.
Is The Sanatorium: The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.9 hours, saving 4 hours.