“Your voice is a precious Stradivarius,” declares the actress Lorelei King in her illuminating guide to would-be audiobook narrators, Storyteller (Creative Content, 2hr 42min, audible.co.uk £9.99). She shows the extensive range of her own vocal instrument off to the full in Hardcore Twenty-Four, her 24th Janet Evanovich narration.
Headless bodies begin to litter the New Jersey streets. The bounty hunter and sleuth Stephanie Plum gets to work finding out who is behind it and is drawn into a twilight world of zombies and brain-removing grave-robbers. She is helped and hindered by her sidekick Lula and feisty Grandma Mazur, now roaming dating sites in search of Grandpa Right. There’s a wisecrack a minute — and Plum faces perils galore, which she escapes from at the