How long does it take to read Devious?
Devious by Lisa Jackson takes about 8 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 8 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 448 pages, about 123,200 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 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, Detectives Bentz and Montoya are called in. For Montoya, the brutal crime scene is disturbingly familiar - his aunt, also a nun, was murdered. And the connections don't end there. Montoya knew this victim in high school, and even knew the prime suspect, Father Frank O'Toole, with whom Camille was rumored to be having an affair. The deeper the investigation goes, the eerier it gets. More nuns are dying - brutally slaughtered by someone who seems to know their darkest secrets. Bentz is sure Father O'Toole is their man. But there are other suspects, too, including a ruthless murderer believed to have died years ago. Has the monstrous killer known as Father John returned? Or is the truth even more twisted and terrifying?
Subjects: Police, Reuben Montoya (Fictitious character), Nuns, Fiction, Rick Bentz (Fictitious character), Crimes against
