The Vanishing Season: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Ellery Hathaway series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Vanishing Season runs 9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Lauren Fortgang (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 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 9 hours, it runs longer than 57% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Ellery Hathaway Series
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 30 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Vanishing Season | 9 hrs |
| 2 | No Mercy | 10.2 hrs |
| 3 | All the Best Lies | 10.8 hrs |
More narrated by Lauren Fortgang
Lauren Fortgang narrates 176 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,741 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
6,043 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 Vanishing Season is book 1 of Joanna Schaffhausen's Ellery Hathaway series: a 9-hour unabridged recording, read by Lauren Fortgang, released December 5, 2017, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Lauren Fortgang
- Released
- December 5, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- The Ellery Hathaway Series #1
- ISBN
- 9781538494219
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Vanishing Season as an audiobook?
The Vanishing Season runs 9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is The Vanishing Season free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Vanishing Season?
The Vanishing Season is narrated by Lauren Fortgang.