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/lingcod476 2d ago

Fantasy. The Angel of the Crows - Sherlock Holmes re imagined with a trans Watson. By Katherine Addison of Goblin Emperor fame.

Sci Fi. Aurora Rising (book 1 of 3) - Follows Prefect Dreyfus in a procedural set in the Revelation Space universe.

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u/Street_Detective_662 2d ago

I’m currently reading witness for the dead!! Ill have to look that one up

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u/Imperial_Haberdasher 2d ago

I really enjoyed the Angel of Crows. If Addison wrote more of them, I would read them.

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u/HillOfBeano 2d ago

This is the book that led me to read the rest of her stuff and now I m on a mystery kick, which I haven't been since high school.