Finally someone else who's deep into that maze! The series loves these looping contradictions. Laura starts trying to solve the disappearance of a photographer in her town, but every clue she uncashes more of her own past she'd buried. Like, she finds this old locket with a picture of a woman who looks just like her, but her adoptive parents insist she was an orphan. The mystery isn't just a case file; it becomes about why her memories of childhood before age seven are just... blank. Is she investigating a crime, or is she the mystery?
Honestly, the journal entries scattered through the books are the creepiest part. She'll be writing down a lead, and the next page will have a paragraph in a different handwriting asking 'Who are you really, Laura?' It implies something is watching her, using her own investigation against her. By the third book, you're not sure if the villain is the human antagonist or the town itself, which seems to warp reality around her searches.