How long does it take to read Return of the Spider?
Return of the Spider by James Patterson takes about 7 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2025. 408 pages, about 112,200 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Along Came a Spider introduced Detective Alex Cross to readers around the globe and delivered an unsurpassed rivalry: Cross versus Gary Soneji. But that wasn’t their first meeting... Police discover that Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius, detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer—including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross may have made a rookie homicide detective. Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face... the Return of the Spider.
