The Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series: Audiobook
Book 13 of the Inspector Banks series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series runs 14.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Simon Slater (about 9.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 30 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
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What our data says
- At 14.8 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Simon Slater
Simon Slater narrates 54 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 570 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
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 Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series is book 13 of Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series: a 14.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Slater, released February 7, 2019, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Slater
- Released
- February 7, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- The Inspector Banks series #13
- ISBN
- 9781509884025
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series as an audiobook?
The Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series runs 14.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.8 hours.
Is The Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series?
The Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series is narrated by Simon Slater.
Is The Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.8 hours, saving 4.9 hours.