Hi All,
I am looking for mystery books that are funny as well. Has characters that are funny or sarcastic or situations where you go “wtf?!” Or “who thinks of writing this lol” I’m cool with fantasy/supernatural mysteries. Also, it doesn’t have to be all murdery either, any mystery will do!
Thanks in advance!!
by medusasrevenge3
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Douglas Adams is a great wtf who writes like this sorta author. I really really enjoyed his type of absurd scifi comedy. The Dirk Gently books have more mystery to them. I liked the second one more than the first and the TV adaptation was fun too!
The other who wrote this world has a metric ton of it inside of his book series, you might start with the color of magic. It isn’t exactly a mystery genre book but it sort of follows that format where there is something strange happening and they have to figure it out.
Another idea is the series, the magicians, which is where a bunch of adults get you go to the fantasy world from their books but it’s absurd. There’s a bunch of really absurd stuff happening. There is a TV series that is even more absurd. Here is a clip from the TV series “well technically, I already went.. Number two. In the Wellspring of ALL Magic. It’s a godly elimination. It’s a real floater.” It’s not a mystery genre book but it has plenty of suspense to keep you going.
Unlikely Animals! Loved this book.
To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis, is a wonderful soft-sci-fi mystery comedy-of-manners.
The [Heathcliff Lennox series](https://www.goodreads.com/series/266192-heathcliff-lennox) by Karen Baugh Menuhin have been described as Agatha Christie meets P.G. Wodehouse. They’re fun and funny cosy mysteries.
Andy Carpenter mystery series
A few suggestions! I’ll probably follow this thread for more!
Over My Dead Body (Maz Evans) – sarcastic lead tries to solve the mystery of her own murder after she dies (sort of reminded me of the show The Good Place?)
The Thursday Murder Club series (Richard Osman) – VERY British in a way that is slightly twee at times but genuinely funny and well written, they get better as they go along (wasn’t sold on the first one but have really warmed to them)
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham) – terrible family reunion in mountain chalet meets murder mystery
Finlay Donovan series (Elle Cosimano) – recently divorced single mom gets caught up in hijinks
Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series.
**Guards! Guards!** by Terry Pratchett is the first in the **City Watch** subseries of Discworld. All the books in this series are detective/mystery books in a fantasy setting.
**Anxious People** by Fredrik Backman is a mystery book where a kidnapper manages to inexplicably escape a hostage situation at a flat viewing.
I can also recommend **Thursday Murder Club** series which others have mentioned.
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutanto is a very lighthearted mystery that you’ll find especially funny if you have a nosey aunt/mother in your life. If you end up liking it, this author also has an “Aunties” series.
Just started a series by Anne Cleaves the Vera Stanhope series and I love it. Slow start to the first one but she has great character development and the inspector herself is quite unique.