Tightening the Threads: Audiobook
Book 5 of the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Tightening the Threads audiobook runs 8.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Christina Delaine (about 5.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 8.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.1 hours, it is shorter than 57% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Mainely Needlepoint Mystery
This is book 5. Books 1 to 4 run 31.9 hours before it; books 1 to 9 run 71.7 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twisted Threads | 8.6 hrs |
| 2 | Threads of Evidence | 8.9 hrs |
| 3 | Thread and Gone | 6.9 hrs |
| 4 | Dangling by a Thread | 7.6 hrs |
| 5 | Tightening the Threads | 8.1 hrs |
| 6 | Thread the Halls | 8.3 hrs |
| 7 | Thread Herrings | 8 hrs |
| 8 | Thread on Arrival | 8.2 hrs |
| 9 | Thread and Buried | 7.2 hrs |
More narrated by Christina Delaine
Christina Delaine narrates 214 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,226 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
5,326 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
- Savage Run
- The 18th Abduction
- The People vs. Alex Cross
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
Tightening the Threads is book 5 of Lea Wait's Mainely Needlepoint Mystery series: a 8.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Christina Delaine, released August 14, 2018, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Christina Delaine
- Released
- August 14, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Mainely Needlepoint Mystery #5
- ISBN
- 9781977385185
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Tightening the Threads audiobook?
Tightening the Threads runs 8.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.4 hours.
Is the Tightening the Threads audiobook free?
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Who narrates Tightening the Threads?
Tightening the Threads is narrated by Christina Delaine.