How long does it take to read Cold Is the Grave?
an Inspector Banks mystery
Cold Is the Grave by Peter Robinson takes about 8 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Inspector Alan Banks
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About 8 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2000. 451 pages, about 124,025 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The nude photo of a teenage runaway shows up on a pornographic website, and the girl's father turns to Detective Chief Inspector Alan banks for help. But these are typical circumstances, for the runaway is the daughter of a man who's determined to destroy the dedicated Yorkshire policeman's career and good name. Still it is a case that strikes painfully home, one that Banks -- a father himself -- dares not ignore as he follows it's squalid trail into teeming London, and into a world of drugs, sex, and crime. But murder follows soon after -- gruesome ,sensational, and, more than once -- pulling Banks in a direction that he dearly does not wish to go: into the past and private world of his most powerful enemy, Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle.
Subjects: Mystery, Alan Banks (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Police, Fiction, Fiction, suspense
