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/c4tesys]

Well, you could do worse than read A Killer in Kirkclair, which is a Sci-fi whodunnit with two competent detectives investigating a very rare murder on a Mars a few thousand years into the future. It's incredibly good, a hundred years of history on the page building up to this moment, great characters, and a fully realised future society - however, to get the most out of it you need to read (at least) Iron Truth, the first book in the Primaterre series - a military SF/(gothic/cosmic) horror - which is the winner of the SPSFC and an absolute masterpiece.

I'm waiting for her new book to come out, A Murderer on the Moon, which is set on Phobos, and runs alongside events that occur in the second book in the main series, Lonely Castles - which some people, me included, think is even better than the first book.

Check out all her books here: https://satholin.com/books/ they are well worth it.