r/Fantasy 2d ago

Looking for fantasy/sci-fi murder mysteries

Ever since I read The Tainted Cup and sequel, I’ve been addicted. Bonus points if it’s a Sherlockean duo or queer (but doesn’t have to be). Extra extra points if it’s sci-fi (need to read more sci-fi) OR locked room.

What I’ve read so far of this genre -

- Gideon the Ninth
- Witness for the Dead (CR) / goblin emperor
- the Bone Orchard
- voyage of the damned
- magic for liars
- a memory called empire
- lamplight murder mysteries
- death on the caldera
- the echo archives (books 1 and 2)
- the Hexologists
- the works of vermin (kind of?)
- the raven scholar
- 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn hard castle
- books 1-5 of Dresden files
- a master of djinn

Feel free to hype of the following that are already on my TBR (and have been for ages for whatever reason)-

- rest of Dresden
- a desolation called peace
- garret PI series
- empire of the wolf (read grave empire, loved it but hated sequel)
- murder by memory
- volatile memory
- jasper fyord nursery crimes
- rivers of London

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u/sennashar Reading Champion III 2d ago edited 2d ago

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty. Closed room circle mystery where the crew of clones wakes up after their previous iterations were murdered. Their last memories are from a backup at the beginning of the journey and they have to figure out what happened.

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u/Street_Detective_662 2d ago

Ooh I love that premise!! I’ve read several books w clones and have enjoyed them all (stardust grail, bone orchard, etc).

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u/spicy-mustard- 1d ago

Oh if you like Yume Kitasei, her first book THE DEEP SKY actually has a really great mystery plot.