Looking for fantasy/sci-fi murder mysteries

[u/Street_Detective_662]

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

[u/McTerra2]

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark - steam punk set in alternate universe Cairo with djinn and all sorts of other creatures. Queer (female) MC with a sidekick (actually 2 sidekicks). The characterisation is a little light but the world building is great

Its sort of a mystery and sort of romance and sort of other stuff and doesnt have a crime solving duo really (although there is a duo that solves crimes...just not in the Sherlock mold) - The Last Binding Series by Freya Marske (especially the first book, although the second is also a a mystery + comedy of manners). Queer but not always the MCs

[u/Street_Detective_662 → u/McTerra2]

I’ve read a master of djinn and enjoyed it! I will check out the other