How long does it take to read A Maiden's Grave?
A Maiden's Grave by Jeffery Deaver takes about 7 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 422 pages, about 116,050 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Kansas, fleeing killers kidnap a bus with deaf girls and hole up in a slaughterhouse. They kill one girl and threaten to kill the rest if their demands are not met. The 12-hour siege by the FBI becomes a media circus, exploited by politicians and competing police departments. By the author of Playing for Sleep.
Subjects: Hostages, Fiction, Kansas, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Hostage negotiations
