FINDING IMOGENE by Teri Case - Review

 


Frances Jerome's childhood friend has been missing for decades.
Over the years, Frances has found herself unable to build close relationships. 

One of the things that I enjoyed most reading FINDING IMOGENE (BZCEPublishing) were the characters. All of them are complex with distinct personalities. In addition they all had their own points of view. Family dramas always keep me reading and I couldn't put FIND IMOGENE down.

Author Teri Case's own personal background gave her lots of material to work with writing FINDING IMOGENE. Be sure to check out her bio.


Synopsis:

Frances Jerome has been tormented by the disappearance of her childhood best friend, Imogene, for decades. Despite her best efforts, Frances hasn’t built honest or intimate relationships with anyone since, including her son and daughter, and she’ll never forgive her father for the role he played in Imogene’s disappearance. Worst of all, she blames herself for turning her back on her best friend when she needed her most. After 43 years of remission, Frances’s cancer returns with a vengeance, and she knows she doesn’t deserve to rest in peace until Imogene can too.

Frances enlists the help of her daughter Jean, who is struggling with her identity as a mother and a wife, and Griffin, a burned-out private detective whose father was haunted by this case before his death. Together, they try to find Imogene before Frances’s time runs out. But will finding Imogene offer the answers, justice, and peace they each long for? Or will the truth expose far more than they can imagine?

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Award-winning author, Teri Case is a native Nevadan. Her alcoholic father, bipolar mother, and nine siblings taught her to watch and learn from others and that laughter can lighten any load (at least for a few seconds). Pre-pandemic, she often travelled—watching, learning, and writing about people who just want to matter. Teri's debut novel, Tiger Drive, won Gold for Best Drama at the Readers' Favorite Awards, won the Benjamin Franklin Award for excellence in Popular Fiction, and won Best New Fiction in the 2018 American Fiction Awards.

In the Doghouse: A Couple's Breakup from Their Dog's Point of View was her second novel and has already won the National Indie Excellence Award, the Gold for Best Animal Fiction at the Readers' Favorite Awards, and Best Book in cross-genre fiction at the 2019 Best Book Awards (American Book Fest).

She runs the Tiger Drive Scholarship for students who want to reach, learn, and grow beyond their familiar environment by attending college or trade school.

She lives with her partner in Washington, DC.

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