casefic

plural casefics

1. slanglifestyleA fanfic, typically based on a mystery or procedural franchise, which focuses on the solving of a case.

   ...what should I read? Looking for casefics mostly, as viscerally horrifying as possible?

   1999 July 13, A. K. Finch, “If I wanted to have trouble sleeping...”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet)

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   There are excellent Sherlock fics that focus on mysteries—Verity Burns' “The Green Mile” is among the best known and most successful case fics, incorporating as it does a compelling plot and extensive deduction scenes while also exploring the relationship between Sherlock and John.

   2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, unnumbered page

   The story is also a ‘casefic’, i.e. a story which revolves around the investigation of a crime: someone have been poisoning and killing alphas, and the resolution to the investigation turns out to have potentially groundbreaking consequences for Sherlock’s future, as well as for omegas in general.

   2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 23