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I'll throw Locked Tomb Trilogy.
It's a good mystery series that's well paced (for me) in that I had my moments of realisation only about a chapter before each reveal most of the time.
One of the books is written in second person, and it's about an unreliable narrator, so that's... fun? I spent a lot of my time, when not reading the book, wondering who the 'I' was to narrative's 'you', then not being able to answer how the 'I' knew the things the 'I' knew, so 'I' couldn't be the 'I' I think 'I' am. But no-one else makes sense, and the second guessing continues.
Also, doesn't do mystery through vague language much, which I dislike most of the time. The viewpoint characters are doing their best, you know what they know, it's just they don't know enough yet. You never really zoom out into an omnipotent narrator, to then not describe what's happening beyond vibes.
All the characters are unlikable though, the universe is unlikeable, it does unlikeable things to everyone, so their unlikability is undertandable at least. But, if you can't get past a purposefully unlikeable cast, that might be a barrier. I don't want to meet any of them (the ones I would be most willing to meet, I'm sure I just don't know well enough), but I'm content reading about their exploits, or rather how they're exploited.
Wow! Gonna check it out! Thanks!