Books like Absolution by Susannah Sandlin

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

Amos Decker #2

Ari's journey from a palace’s blood slave to a forest‑bound survivor is interrupted when the prince who broke her heart returns, forcing her to confront betrayal, loss, and the aggressive forces that threaten her newfound safety.

In 1946 Clanton, a respected war hero and farmer, Pete Banning commits the shocking murder of Reverend Dexter Bell—and says nothing. The case becomes the county’s most baffling crime.

A dark romance filled with vampire warriors, captured love, and a quest for vengeance against evil.

A vampire warrior consumed by madness, seeking to claim a phantom vampire's love, with the night's edge of darkness looming.

New nurse Edie Spence joins County Hospital's covert Y4 ward for paranormal patients. When a vampire servant turns to dust, she must rescue a girl and keep her own soul safe from the undead.

Jackie Brighton, a vampire, faces a variety of challenges in a party setting, all while trying to navigate her newfound position in the vampire world and her relationships with her friends and the mysterious succubus she has become attracted to.

A humorous vampire romance featuring the fictional character Betsy Taylor.

A young woman struggles to adjust to being the sole caretaker of her step-siblings and a vampire couple's baby.

Vacation with a vampire and other immortals: Two sensual romances from Maggie Shayne and Maureen Child.

A humor‑filled vampire romance featuring Betsy Taylor and Eric Sinclair.

Vail the Unwanted is a pure-blooded vampire. But raised by Faery, he has neither home nor peace, and when his aid is sought in the recovery of a priceless diamond gown, his price is information. Specifically the whereabouts of his accursed father. His goal is revenge, and the supernaturally sexy Lyric, the icy blond vampiress with whom he must work, is a distraction he can't afford. Outwardly as cold as the diamond dress in which she was kidnapped, Lyric has her own secrets. Desperate to break free from her criminal family, she aligns herself with the brooding Vail. Together they seek justice while each secretly works for freedom and a fresh start. For Lyric that means holding herself apart, even from the smoldering blue-eyed Vail. For Vail, it means a battle to the death for revenge—and for a temptress he can't deny.

A demigod with a vendetta against two sisters who betrayed him and his vampire friends.

Jillian Conrad discovers that vampires do exist when a scientist’s serum, intended as a vampire toxin, is injected into her bloodstream. Now hunted by one of the undead, she must decide whether to use the serum to destroy the vampire king.

A werewolf and vampire team up to hunt vampires, solve crimes, and protect the non-human species from humans and rogue predators.