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. Itâs 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 âtroubled waters.â
Now Imogene is seventeen, and her father, a famous author of medical mysteries, has struck out in the middle of the night and hasnât come back. Neither Imogeneâs stepmother nor the police know where he couldâve gone, but Imogene is convinced heâs looking for her mother. And she decides itâs up to her to put to use the skills sheâs gleaned from a lifetime of reading her fatherâs books to track down a woman sheâs only known in stories in order to find him and, perhaps, the answer to the question sheâs carried with her for her entire life.