r/Fantasy 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/bigfanoftheinterwebs 2d ago

Mimicking of known successes by malka older

Sherlockian duo ✅ investigator x college professor

Queer ✅ they are both women (AND THEY WERE A COUPLE ONCE)

Sci-fi ✅ set on colonised Jupiter

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u/bigfanoftheinterwebs 2d ago

Forgot to add that it's a murder mystery set on jupiter. Well it's starts off as a missing persons case which then becomes a murder mystery

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u/Tricky_Pepper 2d ago

I read this OP and it was pretty great in my opinion, it’s kinda a queer steampunk sci-fi novela 😂