Recommendations please!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

I wonder if anyone can help me, please? Reading one of my favourite stories for the umpteenth time, Pam Rose’s Where the Worms Are, it struck me that I couldn’t think of many (or any) stories which are similar in the sense that Bodie and Doyle have a real problem/mystery to solve and it’s this whodunit which lies at the heart of the story. So, any ideas/suggestions/recommendations would be much appreciated. Thank you!

ETA: I should have made this clear at the beginning but part of the criteria for my search is that the reader of the story is in the dark as much as Bodie and Doyle and, like them, trying to solve the mystery.

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[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of them recced in crack_van (the site has been shut but is still available). Those I can remember are: "Cowley's irregulars" by Gil Hale (and most of her stories, gen and AU, usually), "Blood Cries" by Debra Hicks, "Tiger by the Tail" by Lilian Shepherd, "Angels Unaware" by Bardicvoice, "Easy Prey" by Jaicen (and all her other stories), "Ghost Town" by Inlovewithboth, "Catastrophe Theory" by Jojo, "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" by jjjunky. This is all that comes to my mind at the moment 'not sure those are all case fics) but there are so many of the sort!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

This is great, thank you! I've read several of the ones you mention but don't remember them as whodunits or mysteries so I think a reread is in order! Thanks again, very much.

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

I should have made this clear originally but the stories should also be a mystery for the reader as well as Bodie and Doyle so that probably narrows it down a lot!

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was in the doubt myself; I mentioned those I remembered as plot heavy stories but was not even certain they were positively case-fics (too AU for some) still less, mysteries novels. Anyway, try crack-van; almost sure there are some of the kind you look for.

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Good idea about Crack Van - I hadn't thought to look there but I will. And I've had a look at Ghost Town which looks like a good, meaty read, the kind of story I'm looking for. Thanks very much for your help.

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

And there is a great vid associated, with the same title (GhostTown) on YouTube.

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent question...I must have a proper think, but the one that springs to mind is Ellis Ward's Killing Notes (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/3/killingnotes.html). I think we're kept in the dark until the end...

Legacy of Temptation (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/17/legacyof.html) but that's an AU... Oh, what about Alexandra's Tea for Two (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/0/teafor.html) and Summer's End (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/0/summersend.html)

Do we know what's going on in O. Yardley's Kind Hearts and Coronets? I've not read it for years, can't remember - is it even a mystery?!

Oh - I've just read a good one actually, though it's gen (but the kind of gen that gets them so right that it's as good as slash) - Frere Jacques (https://ci5hq.livejournal.com/87336.html)! Although it's probably not the kind of mystery you're thinking about...

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you! I'm always worried I'm asking the bleedin' obvious... And thank you for all the recs. I think I've read about half of Legacy but didn't finish it as I'm not that keen on the supernatural and must have got fed up in the end, or not the end but somewhere... Definitely haven't read Frere Jacques but I'll take a look as I don't mind Gen at all. Definitely haven't read the O Yardley story but I thought I'd read all the Alexandra fic but maybe I haven't unless the Summer's End story is the one where they have to keep diaries as part of their convalescence? I might have forgotten that I've read them because I'm going back nearly 16 years to when I first started! But thank you so much for those suggestions and thanks very much for all the links, that's a great help.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

If I'm remembering the right one, Summer's End is the St Michael's Mount one, in Cornwall?

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

Summer's end is long and very slow-paced, I read maybe two-thirds of it and if fell from my hands. So, I never knew what's the end of Summer's end!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it might be the diary one, not sure, but I'll give it a go, thanks again!