Inkspell is the second novel in Cornelia Funke's Inkheart series. The first novel, Inkheart (2003), was critically acclaimed and was made into a major motion picture released in January 2009. The third novel, Inkdeath, was published on 28 September 2007 in Germany. The audiobook published by Random House Listening Library is read by Brendan Fraser, the actor that played Mo in the movie adaptation. It is approximately 18 hours and 50 minutes long on 16 disks. While the English title is "Inkspell", the direct German translation would have been "Inkblood". In the third book of the trilogy, the books' names are directly addressed, translating the three regarding words directly (heart, blood, death), and so the connection with the book titles does not appear clearly to the reader.