I recently read The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, by Holly Black, and loved it. It is pretty much the only vampire book ever that I like :P It's in the YA category, so while it has some violence (and opens with an incredibly creepy dead-people scene) it's not overly so. But it's GREAT!

Also The Rook. Wow this is AMAZING. I can't even really summarise the amazing, but it's all about women and female relationships and the main character is a super-administrator who runs the equivalent of MI5 for weird abnormal stuff. It's also incredibly funny.