The Solace of Bay Leaves: Audiobook
Book 5 of the Spice Shop Mystery series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Solace of Bay Leaves runs 8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Dara Rosenberg (about 5.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8 hours, it is shorter than 59% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Spice Shop Mystery
This is book 5. Books 1 to 4 run 36.2 hours before it; books 1 to 9 run 76.5 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Assault and Pepper | 9.4 hrs |
| 2 | Guilty as Cinnamon | 9.4 hrs |
| 3 | Killing Thyme | 9 hrs |
| 4 | Chai Another Day | 8.3 hrs |
| 5 | The Solace of Bay Leaves | 8 hrs |
| 6 | Peppermint Barked: A Spice Shop Mystery | 7.8 hrs |
| 7 | Between A Wok and a Dead Place | 8.3 hrs |
| 8 | To Err is Cumin | 7.7 hrs |
| 9 | Lavender Lies Bleeding | 8.5 hrs |
More narrated by Dara Rosenberg
Dara Rosenberg narrates 264 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,208 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
5,206 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Left To Die (An Adele Sharp Mystery—Book One)
- Open Season
- The 18th Abduction
- The People vs. Alex Cross
- Mary, Mary
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 Solace of Bay Leaves is book 5 of Leslie Budewitz's Spice Shop Mystery series: a 8-hour unabridged recording, read by Dara Rosenberg, released July 21, 2020, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dara Rosenberg
- Released
- July 21, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Spice Shop Mystery #5
- ISBN
- 9781630155469
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Solace of Bay Leaves as an audiobook?
The Solace of Bay Leaves runs 8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.3 hours.
Is The Solace of Bay Leaves free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Solace of Bay Leaves?
The Solace of Bay Leaves is narrated by Dara Rosenberg.