Books like Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris

Sookie Stackhouse must protect her brother Jason, who is transforming into a were‑panther, and uncover a sniper targeting the local changeling community before the next full moon.

Sookie Stackhouse finds herself embroiled in a sinister conspiracy when the bar she works at, Merlotte’s, is firebombed. While she collaborates with her friend Sam to uncover the culprit, she must also navigate a plot involving vampires and their ambitions.

In the abandoned town of Midnight, Texas, a new pawnshop owner, Manfred Bernardo, and the residents of this eerie crossroads must confront hidden secrets lurking behind boarded‑up windows and a single traffic light.

When a young girl's skeleton is found in the neighborhood of a long‑missing childhood friend, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan must decide whether the two victims are the same person.

Myron Bolitar, a sports agent, is drawn into a murder investigation involving a young tennis star and her former fiancé.

Twelve‑year‑old Katie learns a difficult lesson about kindness and resilience when a life‑changing accident leaves her bedridden, challenging her to live up to her ailing cousin Helen’s example.

Myron Bolitar, a sports agent, uncovers a violent past when he confronts the dangerous world of sports heroes and groupies.

Harper Connelly, a private investigator, is hired by a North Carolina town to locate a missing teenager. She discovers a pattern of vanished teens whose bodies lie buried in the frozen ground, and when the killers close in, she must decide how much she will risk to survive the investigation.

Lightning‑struck detective Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver revisit Texas to care for two girls they consider sisters, only to confront buried family secrets, a reemerging father, and the mystery of Harper’s missing sister.

In Stuart MacBride’s debut thriller, Police Sergeant Logan McRae returns to duty in Aberdeen"—the Granite City—only to confront a series of child murders, a ruthless serial killer, and his own troubled past.

When a mysterious trans‑state disappearance reveals a baby and a murdered husband, Aurora Roe Teagarden and her husband Martin race from Georgia to Ohio to uncover dark family secrets that may endanger them both.

A definitive companion to Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series, offering maps, character profiles, interviews, trivia and a novella exploring the supernatural world of small-town Louisiana.

In Sweet and Deadly, former reporter Catherine Linton returns to Lowfield, Mississippi, to investigate her parents’ car‑accident death, only to find a murdered nurse and a town full of secrets that threaten her own life.

In 1858 Theodora Lestrange escapes a lifeless Scottish life to Transylvania, where a crumbling castle, dark lore, and the rakish Count Andrei Dragulescu set the stage for romance and adventure.

A southern gothic mystery series featuring Annie Darling and her husband Max, set in the 1970s and 1990s, involving the death of a family and the uncovering of dark deeds 20 and 22 years later.

"Cookie Chanel has a passion for fashion--and a murder mystery to solve! Cookie Chanel has opened her own vintage clothing boutique, It's Vintage, Y'All, in the charming town of Sugar Creek, Georgia. Always on the lookout for stylish second-hand steals, she attends the estate sale of deceased socialite Charlotte Meadows. But she gets a lot more than she bargained for when Charlotte's ghost appears before her--offering fashion advice and begging Cookie to find out who murdered her. As the persistent poltergeist tags along and a possibly psychic pussycat moves into the shop, Cookie sorts through racks of suspects to see who may be hiding some skeletons in the closet. Do a clothing store owner and a disembodied socialite have a ghost of a chance of collaring a killer--or will Cookie's life be the next one hanging by a thread?"--Page [4] of cover.

Marine architect Hannah Bryson investigates a decommissioned Soviet submarine, Silent Thunder, and uncovers a deadly plot that kills her brother Connor, forcing her to confront the mastermind behind the attack.

After surviving a brutal kidnapping, Abbie Devereaux must discover who held her captive in an airless shed and why she was targeted, as her memories fade and danger looms again.

A young Scottish journalist, Paddy Meehan, gets her breakthrough case when a sensational murder ties her personally to a suspect and she must unravel hidden truths to protect future lives.