Also, Sara Gran, the author of Come Closer and Dope, has written a new, female-detective mystery story, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, and of course it's very, very good. The jacket copy said it was the first of a series -- hope, hope that's true.
Come Closer was a very convincing horror story - in the same league as Heart-Shaped Box. Dope was non-supernatural but well written and dark. You should read both of them and find out more.

Bathsheba Monk has written a very good novel titled Nude Walker, about (mainly) two families in a dying small American town; freaky realitives, corporate wrongdoing and a love triangle, all very well told.