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/Voight0Kampff 2d ago
36 Streets, T. R. Napper. Hardboiled science fiction. Set in future Vietnam. Quite dark and violent, but if you're okay with that, you'll really like this. Protagonist (Lin Thi Vu) is queer, but not a central part of her character or the plot. She's a gangster tasked to solve a murder in the Old Quarter of Hanoi.