Chapter 6

I went on, "Your mother, Margaret, gets really loose-lipped when she's had a few drinks.

"She's cried to me more than once, saying the biggest sin of her life was abandoning her own daughter.

"She told me the kid had a red mole behind her ear, and even told me the exact spot where she abandoned her.

"Bet you didn't know that I majored in sociology in college.

"Fieldwork and tracking down missing people are basic stuff for me.

"I just went to the orphanage in that county, pulled up some old records from thirty years ago, and did a…