How long does it take to read August Heat?
August Heat by Andrea Camilleri takes about 5 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 14 of Commissario Montalbano
Previous: The Paper Moon Next: The Wings of the Sphinx
About 5 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 284 pages, about 78,100 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A secret apartment and a grisly find in an old trunk are just the beginning, as Montalbano navigates his way though the case, as well as coping with the sweltering heat, the suspicious death of an Arab labourer and the tempting lure of a beautiful girl.
Subjects: Police, Missing children, Fiction, Sicily (italy), fiction, Fiction, crime
