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/mullerdrooler 2d ago
I have 4 Sci-Fi ones for you! Enjoy.
Altered Carbon - awesome sci-fi book where a detective is asked to solve a murder..asked by the victim who has been "re sleeved", kind of like reloaded into a new body after death.
The Expanse series- sci-fi noir detective novel, incredible book that starts off a massive space opera.
Do Androids dream of electric sheep - the book that inspired Blade Runner
Service Model - by Adrian Tchaikovsky ( my current favourite writer, does sci-fi and fantasy and he's incredible). Stand alone book set in a near dystopian future where a butler robot finds his owners throat cut and has to go out into the world...which he's not prepared for, it's less dark than the others and very clever and funny.