CHAPTER SEVENI continued my search for the program coordinator. Jamila was scheduled to make her presentation Saturday afternoon. Mulrooney should be able to arrange her release well before then. Even so, I wondered if anyone associated with the conference had read the local papers. Or how they would react to news reports that night.
For a frozen moment, I worried about word getting out through the new social media. f*******:, and now something called Twitter. But who used that stuff? Kids. Ha!
Traditional media and the rumor mill were my bigger concerns. How would it look for Jamila to give a lecture on ethics after being arrested as a murder suspect? Would the program planner want to cancel her session?
In a far corner, I spied Betsy Larkin, the program coordinator, deep in consultati
