Word to the Wise: Audiobook
Book 10 of the A Library Lover's Mystery series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Word to the Wise audiobook runs 7.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Allyson Ryan (about 4.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.1 hours, it is shorter than 71% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on A Library Lover's Mystery
This is book 10. Books 1 to 9 run 65.8 hours before it; books 1 to 15 run 107.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Books Can Be Deceiving | 7.4 hrs |
| 2 | Due or Die | 7.2 hrs |
| 3 | Book, Line, and Sinker | 6.7 hrs |
| 4 | Read It and Weep | 7.5 hrs |
| 5 | On Borrowed Time | 6.9 hrs |
| 6 | A Likely Story: A Library Lover's Mystery | 8.8 hrs |
| 7 | Better Late Than Never | 7.2 hrs |
| 8 | Death in the Stacks | 7.4 hrs |
| 9 | Hitting the Books | 6.8 hrs |
| 10 | Word to the Wise | 7.1 hrs |
| 11 | One for the Books | 7.5 hrs |
| 12 | Killer Research | 6.7 hrs |
More narrated by Allyson Ryan
Allyson Ryan narrates 287 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,611 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
3,869 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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- 3rd Degree
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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
Word to the Wise is book 10 of Jenn McKinlay's A Library Lover's Mystery series: a 7.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Allyson Ryan, released September 3, 2019, on the Police & Detective and Cozy Mystery shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Allyson Ryan
- Released
- September 3, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective, Cozy Mystery
- Series
- A Library Lover's Mystery #10
- ISBN
- 9781666578058
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Word to the Wise audiobook?
Word to the Wise runs 7.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.7 hours.
Is the Word to the Wise audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Word to the Wise?
Word to the Wise is narrated by Allyson Ryan.