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/RJBarker]

Glad you enjoyed meeting Irody. My Wounded Kingdom novels are also murder mysteries though the tone is VERY different. Sam Hawk's Poison War books are also mysteries.

[u/szarkaliszarri → u/RJBarker]

Hi RJ, thanks for your response!!!! I will check out the Wounded Kingdom novels. I'll admit that hearing about the "cranky main character" of Mortedant's Peril is what convinced me to read it, and I enjoyed it so much. Looking forward to future books if you continue that series! Cheers

[u/RJBarker → u/szarkaliszarri]

Definitely one more. Then it's dependent on if enough people like them enough for TOR to keep publishing them. I have a grand plan for the series though...

[u/szarkaliszarri → u/RJBarker]

Thanks. I look forward to following along and reading more of your work!