Why not have your mystery and enjoy some sci-fi (or fantasy, or romance, or horror) too? With these genre-blending mystery books, you don’t have to choose! You don’t have to stick to only one genre when you can have two or even three at once. That’s the beauty of genre-blending. Books that blend and defy genres don’t have to stick to typical conventions. A locked room murder mystery can become a locked spaceship murder mystery, and a cozy mystery can become a cozy mystery rom-com.

If you ask me, stories are just more fun when they take big swings and don’t try to stick to expected norms. These eight genre-blending mystery books never stick with the ordinary or expected. Instead, they choose to have their genre cake–and eat it too!

Mystery + Sci-Fi

Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite

On an interstellar cruise ship where memories can be saved in the library and bodies can be swapped on request, Dorothy Gentleman wakes in a body that isn’t her own just as a dead body is discovered, clearly murdered.…