Most audiobook narrators are not very good, very often terrible. Yes, even professional ones.

As for these examples, I’ve sampled three of them and the first two weren’t too bad, but the third was obnoxiously awful, just about mocking in tone:

Her eyes wide with terror, she screamed, "The brakes aren't working! What do we do now? We're completely trapped!"

The detective’s voice one is also lousy.