How long does it take to read A Morbid Taste for Bones?
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters takes about 3 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Cadfael Chronicles
Next: One Corpse Too Many
About 3 hours 57 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1977. 215 pages, about 59,125 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 44 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and encounter opposition from the relics’ current keepers. Then the opposition leader is murdered.
Subjects: Herbalists, Monks, Fiction, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), History, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
