I agree with your choices, and wanted to add a few more, if you haven't tried them yet.
Patricia Briggs has a very good series about a Native American woman who can shapeshift into a coyote (shamanistic power, not were). She works as a mechanic, but has many ties to the supernatural community, and the books follow the troubles she has with various vamps, faeries, werewolves, etc.
The main series is the "Mercy Thompson" series (book 1 linked above), with a new off-shoot series called "Alpha and Omega" that focuses on another female character (a werewolf) in the same world.
Another good author for the "Feisty Women With Special Powers Surrounded By The Paranormal" genre is Richelle Mead. I found her posting on the Jim Butcher boards (one of my all-time favorite authors), in the "authors" section. Nice lady, cool books.
The first series is the "Georgina Kincaid" succubus series, where the main character is tired of centuries of corrupting good men and draining the life out of them. However, since she cannot be "intimate" with a man without doing him harm, love and a real relationship is off limits. Then her favorite author comes to visit her bookstore, and someone is killing her supernatural friends. Nice mix of humor, mystery, and a little romance.
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She also has a new series that just started, that reminds me a little of Laurell K Hamilton's "Meredith Gentry" series, except I could only stand to read the first book there, while with this one I will definitely be looking for sequels. Basically, main character is a "feisty woman" shaman, working as a supernatural "gun for hire" in the real world, when a prophecy on the elven side sends them over to try and father the child that will be their next big leader dude. So while everything / everyone is trying to get busy with her, she's avoiding it like mad. (kind of the opposite of Hamilton's series, if I remember the main premise properly...)
My favorite of all these is still Kim Harrison, though - Rachel, Ivy, and Jenks are a great team!
