How long does it take to read Dead by Dusk?
Dead by Dusk by Heather Graham takes about 7 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours
A weekend read
First published 2005. 382 pages, about 105,050 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The rustic oceanfront village of Bella Vista seems like something from an Italian postcard--until young women start disappearing, only to be found horribly mutilated. The police fear a sexual serial killer is at work--something to be hushed up to keep the tourists calm. But the fear in the eyes of the locals says it all: the murders are starting again... For American Stephanie Cahill, Bella Vista is a new beginning--a chance to put her painful past behind her. Yet, from the moment the first body is discovered at the site of an archeological dig, Stephanie feels as if she's being watched, followed, studied...hunted. Archeologist Grant Peterson senses something odd about this dig, something that has him locking his door at night. And now, the echoes of a burial site's ancient legend can be found in the chilling signature of a killer on the loose. The powerful attraction between Stephanie and Grant is a complication neither can afford as they are pulled into a desperate race against time to keep Stephanie from joining the ranks of the missing. For nothing in Bella Vista is what it seems. No one can be trusted. And those closest to Stephanie may prove the most dangerous of all...
Subjects: Serial murders, Fiction, Excavations (Archaeology), Vampires, Fiction, romance, paranormal, Fiction, romance, paranormal, general