How long does it take to read Deeper Than the Dead?
Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag takes about 7 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Oak Knoll
Next: Secrets to the Grave
About 7 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 421 pages, about 115,775 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 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
California, 1984. Three children, running in the woods behind their school, stumble upon a partially buried female body, eyes and mouth glued shut. Close behind the children is their teacher, Anne Navarre, shocked by this discovery and heartbroken as she witnesses the end of their innocence. What she doesn't yet realize is that this will mark the end of innocence for an entire community, as the ties that bind families and friends are tested by secrets uncovered in the wake of a serial killer's escalating activity. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with interpreting those now revealed secrets. He's using a new technique-profiling-to develop a theory of the case, a strategy that pushes him ever deeper into the lives of the three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own. As new victims are found and the media scrutiny of the investigation bears down on them, both Mendez and Navarre are unsure if those who suffer most are the victims themselves-or the family and friends of the killer, blissfully unaware that someone very close to them is a brutal, calculating psychopath.
Subjects: Fathers and sons in fiction, Officials and employees, Serial murder investigation in fiction, Women scientists, Fathers and sons, Fiction
