10 of the Best Mystery and Horror Books for Scaredy Cats

If you wait for the audiobook format of a book to release then happy day to you because The Obsession now has an audiobook with dual narrators: Catherine Ho and David Lee Huynh.

Delilah has been having a really hard time after her father’s death and is now living with an abusive stepfather. Logan, her stalker classmate, witnesses something while secretly watching Delilah and uses it to blackmail her into dating him. The novel alternates between Logan and Delilah’s perspectives until a cornered, and fed up, Delilah is ready to fight back. I really like that this started with You vibes but then went its own way. If you’re a fan of dark YA, pick this one up!

(TW stalker/domestic abuse/past suicide attempt and suicide, detail/drugging without consent)

This is my current audiobook read, narrated by the author! The book uses a 30 year cold case, solved by Jim Scharf, a cold case investigator, and CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogist, to explore how far science has come with DNA. The case at the heart of the book is a young Canadian couple, Tanya Van Cuylenborg (18) and Jay Cook (20), who took a weekend trip to Seattle because Jay needed a part for a furnace. They disappeared and were later found violently murdered, Tanya raped. The murders, assumed to have been committed by a serial killer, went unsolved for 30 years until a team was sent to collect something with DNA on it from a truck driver who’d been assumed the killer and tested his DNA. The book goes into the case, and the lives of Tanya and Jay while equally exploring how much DNA technology has changed, including the ethics behind someone uploading their DNA to see their family lineage and that DNA being used by law enforcement in cold cases.