CHAPTER SEVEN It wasn’t hard to find Linda Delaney-Sawyer’s phone number. Mia hadn’t noticed it before, but it turned out that Linda was now a real estate agent, and so her name and likeness was splashed on billboards and signs all over town. What was hard was finding a payphone that still worked. In the past month, she’d been using and dumping burner phones like crazy, but she thought for this call, she’d just use a payphone. No such luck, she realized, as she drove through a shopping center, finding no public phones. There was, however, a small electronics store. She went inside, bought the cheapest model she could find, and dialed the number on the giant SELL YOUR HOME FAST WITH LINDA BY YOUR SIDE! billboard across the highway. “This is Linda,” a voice said in monotone. “Hi, Linda.

