We Are All Guilty Here audiobook vs book: which should you choose?
Emmy Clifton thinks she knows her neighbours in North Falls, Georgia, until her best friend’s daughter disappears. The first book in Karin Slaughter’s North Falls series.
Short answer: for the We Are All Guilty Here audiobook vs book choice, we say listen on Audible (65% confidence, leaning). Kathleen Early reads the unabridged recording in 16 hours 33 minutes. At 448 pages in hardback it is a long book, the only criterion that could be confirmed. Only 3 points could be confirmed, so confidence is held at 65%. The UK paperback is 464 pages.
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The long book is the only confirmed point, so it leans to audio with too little evidence for a stronger call.
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Confidence 65%, which puts it in the leaning band. Bands run from close call at 50 to 64, through leaning at 65 to 79 and clear at 80 to 94, up to clear cut at 95 and above.
The audiobook at a glance
| Recording | UK edition, our verdict (HarperCollins) |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Kathleen Early |
| Length | 16 hours 33 minutes (16h 33m), per Audible UK |
| At 1.5x | about 11h 2m |
| At 2x | about 8h 17m |
| Abridged or unabridged | Unabridged |
| Audio publisher and year | HarperCollins, 19 June 2025 |
| US edition | Kathleen Early, 16h 33m, William Morrow, 12 August 2025 |
| Listener rating | Performance 4.67 from 1,065 ratings on Audible UK; 4.75 from 14,215 on Audible US (27 October 2026) |
| Print length | 448 pages (UK hardback); 464 pages (UK paperback, 23 April 2026, £7.99) |
The UK and US listings have the same narrator and length but different publisher labels. Whether they are one recording is not confirmed. No PDF companion is listed.
Lengths checked 27 October 2026. Speed times are calculated.
We Are All Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter
- Genre
- Crime thriller
- Series
- North Falls, book 1
- First published
- 2025
- Length
- 464 pages (UK paperback)
- On audio
- 16 hrs 33 mins, Kathleen Early
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Why we reached this verdict
Every book on this site is checked against the same thirteen questions. They are based on research into what most people find easier to follow in each format, not on whether the book is any good.
Listening: long book (3), 3 points. Reading: nothing confirmed, 0 points. 100% of the confirmed points favour listening, so the verdict is listen on Audible at 65% confidence (leaning). Only 3 points could be confirmed, so confidence is held at 65% until more evidence is found.
The recording in detail
- Scored
- Kathleen Early, HarperCollins, 2025, 16h 33m, unabridged
- Critic review
- None found
- Alternatives
- US listing: Kathleen Early, 16h 33m (William Morrow)
- What you miss
- Nothing confirmed
What this book actually is
We Are All Guilty Here is the first novel in Karin Slaughter’s North Falls series, published in the UK in June 2025. It is set in a small Georgia town and moves forward twelve years between its two parts, with Emmy Clifton and then Jude Archer at its centre (Kirkus, Bookreporter).
The second book, The Secrets We Hide, came out in UK print on 18 June 2026. What happened, and who did it, is not covered here.
The case for reading it
Nothing confirmed points to print. The story jumps twelve years between its two parts, but no named source says it moves back and forth, and no source confirms three or more points of view. If a source does, the verdict will be checked again.
The case for listening to it
At 448 pages in hardback it is a long book, and Kathleen Early reads all of it. Audible listeners rate the performance highly, though no named critic has reviewed the recording.
At 16 hours 33 minutes, it is about 11 hours 2 minutes at 1.5x.
The audiobook in detail
HarperCollins publishes the unabridged UK recording, read by Kathleen Early, at 16 hours 33 minutes (19 June 2025). William Morrow lists the US recording with the same narrator and length (12 August 2025).
It had a performance rating of 4.67 from 1,065 ratings on Audible UK and 4.75 from 14,215 on Audible US on 27 October 2026. No UK audiobook of the second book was found on the same day.
Who should ignore this verdict
With only one criterion confirmed, this is a light lean. If you read crime faster than you listen to it, print is just as good a choice.
Lean towards print if you like to keep track of a town full of characters: reviews name seven to nine of them.
Audiobook
- Read by Kathleen Early
- 16h 33m, or about 11h 2m at 1.5x
- Unabridged; HarperCollins
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Start hereHow we decide
The thirteen questions behind every verdict on this site.
Questions people ask
Who narrates We Are All Guilty Here?
Kathleen Early reads the whole book, on both Audible UK and Audible US.
How long is the We Are All Guilty Here audiobook?
16 hours 33 minutes; at 1.5x about 11 hours 2 minutes and at 2x about 8 hours 17 minutes (calculated).
Is the We Are All Guilty Here audiobook abridged?
No. It is unabridged.
Is We Are All Guilty Here the first North Falls book?
Yes. The second, The Secrets We Hide, came out in UK print on 18 June 2026. No UK audiobook of book two was found on 27 October 2026.
Is there a PDF with the audiobook?
None is listed on Audible UK or US.
Should I read or listen to We Are All Guilty Here?
Listen on our checks (65% confidence, leaning). The long book is the only criterion that could be confirmed, so confidence is capped at 65%.
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How this verdict was reached
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- The criteria: read the thirteen questions in full.
- What we checked for this book: Audible UK and US, the HarperCollins listings, Kirkus, Bookreporter and the 2026 Audie Awards finalists. No audio review was found in AudioFile, Booklist, Library Journal or Publishers Weekly.
- Verdict last reviewed: 27 October 2026. Editions and narrators change, so verdicts are rechecked annually.
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