Thistles and Thieves: Audiobook
Book 3 of the Highland Bookshop Mystery series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Thistles and Thieves audiobook runs 8.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Lucy Paterson (about 5.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.7 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 |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 8.7 hours, it runs longer than 52% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Highland Bookshop Mystery Series
This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 18.5 hours before it; books 1 to 5 run 45.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plaid and Plagiarism | 9.3 hrs |
| 2 | Scones and Scoundrels | 9.3 hrs |
| 3 | Thistles and Thieves | 8.7 hrs |
| 4 | Heather and Homicide: The Highland Bookshop Mystery Series | 8.9 hrs |
| 5 | Argyles and Arsenic | 9.2 hrs |
More narrated by Lucy Paterson
Lucy Paterson narrates 64 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 630 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
5,959 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
Thistles and Thieves is book 3 of Molly MacRae's Highland Bookshop Mystery series: a 8.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Lucy Paterson, released January 7, 2020, on the Police & Detective and Cozy Mystery shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Lucy Paterson
- Released
- January 7, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective, Cozy Mystery
- Series
- The Highland Bookshop Mystery Series #3
- ISBN
- 9781666560800
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Thistles and Thieves audiobook?
Thistles and Thieves runs 8.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.8 hours.
Is the Thistles and Thieves audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Thistles and Thieves?
Thistles and Thieves is narrated by Lucy Paterson.