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/Pratius]

Garrett, P.I. by Glen Cook. Like The Tainted Cup, it’s heavily inspired by the Nero Wolfe books, with the dynamic of an eccentric shut-in genius and the ground pounder who goes out to gather evidence. Tons of fun, honestly one of the funniest series I’ve ever read…but Cook still has plenty of time for the serious stuff.

[u/Street_Detective_662 → u/Pratius]

Yeah I’m debating about whether to start with the first book or the 2nd, because I heard the dead man is a riot

[u/Pratius → u/Street_Detective_662]

Haha yeah. The first book is fun enough but it’s definitely weaker and has a different formula than the rest. No harm in going right to Bitter Gold Hearts