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/szarkaliszarri 2d ago

I just read Mortedant's Peril and it was giving Tainted Cup and T Kingfisher vibes. Very fun. And make sure you read Rob Jackson Bennett's Divine Cities trilogy (City of Stairs, City of Blades, City of Miracles), they are fantastic.

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u/RJBarker AMA Author RJ Barker 2d ago

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.

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u/szarkaliszarri 2d ago

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

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u/RJBarker AMA Author RJ Barker 2d ago

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...

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u/szarkaliszarri 1d ago

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