Publisher: Balzer and Bray
Publication Date June 2016
All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father told her as a child. It’s 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 Imogene was a baby, a woman who was always possessed by 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 hasn’t come back. Neither Imogene’s stepmother nor the police know where he could’ve gone, but Imogene is convinced he’s looking for her mother. And she decides it’s up to her to put to use the skills she’s gleaned from a lifetime of reading her father’s books to track down a woman she’s only known in stories in order to find him and, perhaps, the answer to the question she’s carried with her for her entire life.
In The Mystery of Hollow Places, Imogene's father has disappeared. There doesn't seem to be any urgency about where he has gone. When she finds a clue in the house, she is convinced he is looking for her long lost mother. I have had this on my TBR list for a while. I was looking forward to diving in when I finally picked it up. I had high expectations based on the summery and based on the opening of the book.
I was really disappointed with this one. It all boils down to it being boring as hell. I'm not sure why I finished the book. I kept waiting for something to happen. Imogene was a very uninteresting person. I got to a point that I didn't care if she discovered the truth. The reveal at the end was so disappointing and a major let down. Her father's excuses were lame and misguided. I don't really have much more to say other than I really don't recommend this one.
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