Touch the Dark: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Cassandra Palmer series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Touch the Dark audiobook runs 12 hours unabridged, narrated by Cynthia Holloway (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 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 12 hours, it runs longer than 85% of the 5,506 Horror audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Cassandra Palmer
This is book 1. Books 1 to 14 run 228.2 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Touch the Dark | 12 hrs |
| 2 | Claimed by Shadow | 13.5 hrs |
| 3 | Embrace the Night | 16 hrs |
| 4 | Curse the Dawn | 14.5 hrs |
| 5 | Hunt the Moon | 14.9 hrs |
| 6 | Tempt the Stars | 13.4 hrs |
| 7 | Reap the Wind | 17.9 hrs |
| 8 | Ride the Storm | 22 hrs |
| 9 | Brave the Tempest | 20.3 hrs |
| 10 | Shatter the Earth | 15.6 hrs |
| 11 | Ignite the Fire: Incendiary | 15.3 hrs |
| 12 | Ignite the Fire: Inferno | 22 hrs |
More narrated by Cynthia Holloway
Cynthia Holloway narrates 48 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 549 hours in all.
- Cerulean Sins: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
- The Kissing Booth
- Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
- When You Reach Me
- Some Girls Bite
About as long, on the Horror shelf
608 Horror audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Cell
- Misery
- The House Across the Lake
- The Troop
- Relic
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
Touch the Dark is book 1 of Karen Chance's Cassandra Palmer series: a 12-hour unabridged recording, read by Cynthia Holloway, released September 29, 2008, on the Horror shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12 hrs
- Narrated by
- Cynthia Holloway
- Released
- September 29, 2008
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Horror
- Series
- Cassandra Palmer #1
- ISBN
- 9781400178179
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Touch the Dark audiobook?
Touch the Dark runs 12 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.
Is the Touch the Dark audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Touch the Dark?
Touch the Dark is narrated by Cynthia Holloway.
Is Touch the Dark worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.