How long does it take to read The Holy Thief?
The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters takes about 5 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 19 of The Cadfael Chronicles
Previous: The Summer of the Danes Next: Brother Cadfael's Penance
About 5 hours 15 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 286 pages, about 78,650 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Situational twins abound as murder follows theft while abbeys recover from disruption.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Great Britain in fiction, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), Monks in fiction, Monks
