Charlaine Harris who wrote the True Blood series/sookie stackhouse has also written the aurora teagarden mysteries (not supernatural) the Lily Bard series (not supernatural) and another series I can't remember the series name of but one of the books is called "grave sight" (this one is supernatural, the heroine can be near a dead body and sense how the person died) I'm not big on mysteries for similar reasons you have cited, but I enjoyed all these, although the teagarden mysteries do sort of take place all in the same area, but it's Atlanta, which is not exactly tiny.

I also like Kathy Reichs "Bones" books...so I would recommend all of them. Do you have an e reader? I could probably send you one book of each series in whatever format you need (or provide you a link to download yourself) for you to try them out, see if you like the writing, and then you'd be on your own for personal aquisition. I know a site where people upload books (I'm of the support the author mindset myself, but when it comes to books I have purchased already in paper format I don't have a problem downloading the ereader...I simply do not have room for all my books and am having no choice but to switch formats and there is no way on god's green earth I could replace over 3000 books.)