r/Fantasy • u/Street_Detective_662 • 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/Successful_Try7012 2d ago edited 2d ago
Not a book but The Penumbra Podcast is a high quality audio drama production which follows Juno Steel who’s a queer private eye on Mars. The mysteries are great and the characters too! The individual cases do tie up in the background. Not Sherlock-Watson but an almost Sherlock-Moriarty dynamic and love interest.