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LONGFORM AU

LATE MEDIEVAL (England 1389) •The Austringer (AO3)

In 1389 Leicester, England, Lady Maura Isles meets a dashing, mysterious stranger and is drawn into a web of intrigue, danger, and forbidden romance to rival the most notorious of chivalric tales.

THE GILDED AGE (Boston/NYC 1885, London 1886): The Age of Wickedness (Series) (AO3) •No Rest for the Wicked (2023, but it completes the set)(AO3)

In 1880s Boston, a private detective with a mysterious past meets an idiosyncratic, strong-willed physician; they quickly become embroiled in a series of grotesque, disturbing murders that mirror horrors long thought vanquished.

•The Ways of the Wicked (AO3)

Sequel to NO REST FOR THE WICKED, a Gilded Age AU. Jane and Maura continue their lives together in 1880s Boston, though their happiness is soon interrupted by a new string of brutal murders that draw together the police, the Church, Boston's notorious street gangs, and rapidly-shifting social attitudes, all casting a bright spotlight on the dark underbelly of a shining city.

•Some Wicked Thing (AO3)

The third installment in The Age of Wickedness follows Maura and Jane through their life together in 1885 Boston. A young woman from a notable society family is committed to an asylum under mysterious circumstances, and our heroes must enter a dark, dangerous world in order to discover the truth.

•Among the Weak and the Wicked (AO3)

Jane and Maura are obligated to travel to London after the death of Maura's father in order to participate in the complex and rigid mourning practices demanded of Maura’s social station. Constrained by etiquette to remain within the opulent-but-shrouded Hyde Park mansion ruled over by Maura's stern, proper grandmother Lady Margaret and joined in black-veiled isolation by the elegant, distant, recently-widowed Constanze Isles, the pair spend their days bored and frustrated by the strict and monotonous rules of mourning, until a series of bodies are discovered in the dim, silent manse—the killer almost certainly moving just as silently among them.

HARD-BOILED NOIR (Boston 1931) •Hard Luck (AO3)

In Prohibition-era Boston, private detective Jane Rizzoli is pretty happy with her little life of catching wandering spouses, foiling blackmailers, and solving problems the police won't touch, until one stormy night a tear-stained dame walks into her office, asking her to solve the murder of her high-profile fiancé Garrett Fairfield, one of the city's most powerful men.

•Hot Agony Jazz (AO3)

A sequel to Hard Luck: A Hard-Boiled Noir After the events a few months earlier, private detective Jane Rizzoli is holed up in her converted office over a shirt factory, laying low, until one day a phone call from her brother starts a chain of events that quickly spirals into a life-or-death situation for more than one person. NOTE: this story progresses from the second ending of Hard Luck ("Fireworks")

COSMIC HORROR • Mother-Thing (AO3)

A too-accurately translated invocation found at a crime scene leads to the arrival of an unexpected guest, and the unraveling of the fabric of the universe itself. Rating is for depictions of unnameable and consciousness-rending terror! Yay!

•I Dare You (tumblr only)

Ancient sex witches! Maura eats a marshmallow!

SERIAL KILLERS (Contemporary Boston) •Folie à Deux (AO3) (ongoing, ad hoc)

Inspired by a tumblr post in which it was proposed that maura and jane are actually a hot, highly-accomplished serial murder team operating right under everyone's noses. it's very dark! and very creepy! if that is not your thing! don't worry about it!

SMUT (EMOTIONAL)

•Diaphananthe hedoniana (Sex Pollen) (AO3)

Maura drags Jane to the annual Isles Foundation gala where they’re both exposed to a mysterious chemical that does what mysterious chemicals do, but once it wears off, reality has to come back.

•You Can’t Go Home Again (AO3)

Three years after Paris, Jane and Maura run into each other.

•Beautiful, Brilliant, Talented (AO3)

Jane and Maura are at a bad place in their just-friends relationship and they each have very different ways of dealing with it.

SMUT (HEDONISM)

•Good Girl (g!p jane) (AO3)

jane wakes up with an unexpected new friend: an oblique transtasia

•Diaphananthe hedoniana, Chapters 1-3 only •Beautiful, Brilliant, Talented, Part 2 (tumblr only)