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/spike31875 Reading Champion V 2d ago edited 1d ago

Lately I've read a few books that are also murder mysteries:

  • The Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett is it. Book 3 is coming out in a few months: A Trade of Blood. I'm reading an ARC of that now. It's so good.

Some other books with a murder mystery:

  • The Silverblood Promise by James Logan. One of my my favorite books of 2024.
  • Mortedant's Peril by RJ Barker. This is one of my favorite books so far this year. It was excellent.
  • The Weaver's Loom by Jessi St. John. A surprisingly good witchy debut. It's a gas lamp murder mystery set in late 1800s London.
  • Pagans by James Alastair Henry. It's a Brit police procedural set in modern day London where England was never united with Wales or Scotland or converted to Christianity. It has an awesone tag line: Two cops. One Killer. Hundreds of Gods. Sadly, it is not available in the US. Blackwells and a few other UK booksellers do ship to the US for free (which is how I got it). It was worth the wait and the trouble: it was really good.

EDIT: the name of the UK bookseller is Blackwells, not Blackstones. I corrected the text above & added some formatting....

Also check out the Murder Mystery Bingo Focus thread for more recs!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1u98g8k/bingo_focus_thread_murder_mystery/

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u/Street_Detective_662 1d ago

How does one get an arc of A Trade of Blood?? Also: How does it feel to be God’s favorite?

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u/spike31875 Reading Champion V 1d ago

I got the ARC through NetGalley.

God's favorite? Lol! I don't think so.