How long does it take to read The Grave Tattoo?
The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid takes about 9 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 24 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 513 pages, about 141,075 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, old wives' tales also come swirling to the surface. For centuries Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem - a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harbouring a fugitive. Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the Lake District, feels compelled to discover once and for all whether the manuscript ever existed - and whether it still exists today.
Subjects: Fiction, Women scholars, Treasure troves, Suspense fiction, Manuscripts, English Authors
