If you loved how Sookie waits tables at Merlotte’s by day and gets pulled into vampire politics at Fangtasia by night, you’ll click with Mercy Thompson. In Moon Called, Mercy’s a VW mechanic who moonlights as a coyote shapeshifter, dodging werewolf pack drama, a possessive Alpha, and vampire favors. Like Sookie’s small-town Bon Temps vibe, the Tri-Cities hum with creatures living in plain sight—complete with turf disputes, deadly secrets, and a heroine who knows when to wield grit and charm.

Drawn to the way Sookie uses her telepathy to sift suspects while a murderer targets fang-bangers? In Storm Front, Chicago’s wizard-detective Harry Dresden is racing a killer whose victims’ hearts have literally exploded. Between mob boss John Marcone breathing down his neck, a lethal new drug circulating, and pressure from the cops, Harry’s case crackles with the same propulsive, clue-by-clue tension you enjoyed when Sookie closed in on the Bon Temps killer.

If Sookie and Bill’s charged chemistry—and the thorny questions it raises—hooked you, try Halfway to the Grave. Cat Crawfield starts as a half-vampire who hunts vamps out of principle, then partners with the lethal, sardonic vampire Bones to take down something worse. The banter, heat, and trust issues echo Sookie and Bill’s early nights in Bon Temps and Shreveport, while the fights and covert ops keep the stakes as sharp as a wooden stake.

Liked living inside Sookie’s head as she navigates telepathy, murders, and vampire politics? Magic Bites puts you in Kate Daniels’s no-nonsense, first-person voice as she tackles a case amid Atlanta’s magic waves, necromancers, and shifter courts. Kate’s dry wit and blunt honesty land like Sookie’s best asides about Bon Temps gossip, while power plays with the Pack’s Beast Lord Curran scratch that same itch for crackling, character-driven tension.

If Sookie’s sardonic take on Bon Temps—juggling bar gossip, grisly murders, and vampire etiquette—made you grin, Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs leans into that comedic charm. Librarian Jane Jameson gets fired, accidentally turned into a vampire, and has to survive Half-Moon Hollow’s manners and monsters. It’s got the same Southern snark you smiled at when Sookie sized up Fangtasia’s crowd, with dates, disasters, and undead social rules played for sharp laughs.