Mystery of Hollow Places

The Mystery of Hollow Places is a gorgeously written, stunningly original novel of love, loss, and identity, from debut author Rebecca Podos.All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father told her as a child. Its the story of how her parents met: he, a forensic pathologist; she, a mysterious woman who came to identify a body. A woman who left Imogene and her father when she was a baby, a woman who was always possessed of a powerful loneliness, a woman who many referred to as troubled waters.Now Imogene is seventeen, and her father, a famous author of medical mysteries, has struck out in the middle of the night and hasnt come back. Neither Imogenes stepmother nor the police know where he couldve gone, but Imogene is convinced hes looking for her mother. And she decides its up to her to put to use the skills shes gleaned from a lifetime of reading her fathers books to track down a woman shes only known in stories in order to find him and, perhaps, the answer to the question shes carried with her for her entire life.