Cold-Case Mysteries About What Time Changes

A witness builds a family, a familiar landscape is redeveloped, and an old explanation becomes part of someone’s identity. These mysteries make such changes central to discovering what happened. Some reopen police files; others follow relatives, journalists or a biographer through stories people have lived around for years. Start with Five Little Pigs for competing recollections, The Distant Echo for the adult cost of an old accusation, or Echoes from the Dead for a family returning to a disappearance. Case Histories gives several kinds of loss equal attention. The Daughter of Time is the historical-records outlier, and The Thirteenth Tale moves into Gothic family mystery. The notes identify those differences, translation credits and later-series context without revealing the answers. Child death, abuse and sexual violence make several choices difficult; elapsed years have not softened what happened.