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The Yard by Alex Grecian

The Yard: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Yard runs 14.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Toby Leonard Moore (about 9.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14.6listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2012released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 14.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Yard at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day30 days
1 hour / day15 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×10 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 14.6 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Scotland Yard's Murder Squad

This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 34.2 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1The Yard14.6 hrs
2The Black Country10.1 hrs
3The Devil's Workshop9.6 hrs

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

968 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2012 recording read by Nigel Carrington runs 0.8 hours shorter (13.8 hours).

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 Yard is book 1 of Alex Grecian's Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series: a 14.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Toby Leonard Moore, released May 29, 2012, on the Police & Detective and Literary Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
14.6 hrs
Narrated by
Toby Leonard Moore
Released
May 29, 2012
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Literary Fiction
Series
Scotland Yard's Murder Squad #1
ISBN
9781101564660

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Yard as an audiobook?

The Yard runs 14.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.7 hours.

Is The Yard free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates The Yard?

The Yard is narrated by Toby Leonard Moore.

Is The Yard worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.7 hours, saving 4.9 hours.