The Big Peat
Darth Buddha
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Anyone got some good ones? Preferably non-Urban. Seems really difficult to find books in this vein outside UF these days.
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton?
I have it but haven't read it yet but if you read the description for Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed that sounds like a murder mystery:Throne of the Crescent Moon
There are mysteries, certainly, and people die, and the second book of the trilogy opens in the aftermath of a death and the POV character tries, intermittently, to discover a murderer, but none of the books are really murder mysteries as I would define them, where the murder is the driver of the plot and the main character investigates and solves the crime.Carol Berg's Collegia Magica series starting with The Spirit Lens. Haven't read it yet, but what I have read of hers is brilliant.
You could maybe argue how much they are fantasy stories, but I really liked China Mieville's The City and the City and Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union (the latter is more alternate history rather than fantasy).