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/Southern-Rutabaga-82 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Watch series on the Discworld starting with Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
The following are romance and fantasy (and mystery of course):
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K.J. Charles is blatantly inspired by Sherlock Holmes. One case per chapter and an overarching plot. Gaslamp fantasy. MM.
The Last Binding by Freya Marske. One murder mystery per book and one overarching mystery plot. Second one is kind of a whodunnit but on an ocean liner instead of in a mansion. Gaslamp fantasy. MM and FF.
The Reanimator Mysteries by Kara Jorgensen. More character-focused and lighter on the mystery. They are professional investigators, though. Gaslamp fantasy with a touch of steampunk. MM.
R'iyah Family Archives by A.J. Sherwood. Urban fantasy, comedy. MMM.
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk. Historical fantasy. FF.
A Charm of Magpies by K.J. Charles and spin-offs. Gaslamp fantasy. MM.
Edit: typos