Novel Length Amazing Works

[deliajohnson.livejournal.com]

Hi All!

I am after some Epic novel-length Holmes/Watson fics. I have read a lot of the standards, so anything off the beaten path would be great. '09 movie, BBC verse, Canon... I'll take them all!

I'd love a mystery and a first time romance, and I'm particularly interested in any post- Game of Shadows fics-- I haven't read much in that universe since BBC Sherlock came out.

Any and all recs, please!

Thanks in advance,
D.

Comments

[grey853.livejournal.com]

The Paradox Series by wordstrings is amazing!

http://wordstrings.livejournal.com/

[le-froufrou.livejournal.com]

These are all canon or movie verse and lengthy or at least plot-heavy. You'll probably have come across a few of these already, but I hope that at least some of them will be new to you :)

katieforsythe's fic. I particularly recommend the Love series, which can be read as one big novel with alternating viewpoints. Chock-a-block full of mystery, and it spans their entire relationship from meeting to retirement. Birds to a Lighthouse (http://katieforsythe.livejournal.com/15024.html) is my favourite part :)

Anything by candle_beck is amazing. I think all of her Holmes fics are first-time fics, and often come with some degree of investigation.

I compulsively rec Winter in London (http://w-a-i-d.livejournal.com/748.html) whenever I can. Words cannot express how much I adore that fic. There is so much historical detail in the case, and the story is just heartbreaking, in the best possible way.

Broken Substitutes (http://zarah5.livejournal.com/56942.html) is very good, lots of UST and built around a case. It's movie-verse and post-Reichenbach, but was written before Game of Shadows.

High Stakes (http://tinzelda.livejournal.com/5989.html) is a lovely slashy reimagining of A Study in Scarlet.

These Things were Promises (http://paperclipbitch.livejournal.com/128436.html) is a UST feast; it was offline for a while but thankfully, the author has unlocked it again.

The Case of the Stolen Doctor (http://flawedamythyst.livejournal.com/408771.html), wherein Moriarty kidnaps Watson. Need I say more?

Watson is also kidnapped in Leverage (http://jenlee1.livejournal.com/3647.html). There can never be enough of that.

Also when 'tis Cold and Drear (http://archiveofourown.org/works/421662/chapters/703400) has a lovely slow buildup with alternating PoVs, framed by case investigations.

To See Reason (http://shkinkmeme.livejournal.com/4456.html?thread=3083880#t3083880) has lots of exciting tension, case-wise and relationship-wise.

Things on Fire, Things that Fall (http://holmestice.livejournal.com/32279.html) ticks all the boxes and is funny, too.

Unravelled (http://circa1220bce.livejournal.com/1523.html#cutid1) is another humorous fic, wherein Holmes has amnesia and assumes that he and Watson are an item. He goes all detective to uncover the truth.

I haven't read the following fics yet, but they look plotty and, as far as I'm aware, involve first-time romance:
The Silver Answer (http://archiveofourown.org/works/95654)
Jack-in-the-Box (http://esteefee.dreamwidth.org/4167.html#cutid1)

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

My "Baker Street: Sleep of Reason" is a novel length mystery, Ritchie-verse,
pre-Blackwell.

It's available at my Yahoo Group in complete pdf:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/queer_theories_by_gaedhal/files/

Just ask and I'll add you. Then you can download.

[obscuriglobus.livejournal.com]

Gah, I hate linking to my Delicious account, but I'm in a rush and won't remember to come back to reply with individual links later :(

So, my bookmarks for longfic of the canon/victorian kind can be found here -> http://delicious.com/obscuriglobus/longfic+fanfic%253ASherlockHolmesBook%2521verse

And the BBC fic I've bookmarked here -> http://delicious.com/obscuriglobus/longfic+fanfic%253ASherlock

[deliajohnson.livejournal.com]

winter in london was amazing, thank you!!!!

The Violet Hour

[mightypog.livejournal.com]

In all of fandom, this is the best thing I have ever read.
http://archiveofourown.org/chapters/629311?show_comments=true#comment_1128615

I remain in awe of this author, who wrote this incredible and unbelievably well-researched AU set in San Francisco in the 1920s. I just died all over this masterpiece. OMG, the romance of it, too. Murderously amazing.