But his brother’s words prompted him to walk closer. “Fish?” he asked once he could see everyone.
“Yep.” Ellis smiled. “We got back early, and I figured you’d like some fresh-caught cod that neither you nor Claire had to cook.”
“Works for me.” Ozzie walked up behind Claire to give her a quick kiss. “What are you looking at?” He nodded to her laptop.
“Sarah Cole.”
His eyebrows drew down. “Why are you still looking into my case?” His gaze swung to me. “Is that why you’re here, Mina? I told you all to mind your own business.”
Claire held up a hand. “I asked them to come over. I found something with those coordinates you gave me, and I had to tell someone before it ate me alive. Maybe next time, you should consider answering my calls.”
“I was out of cell range for a good part of the day,” he grumbled.
She grinned and patted his face. “Sure you were.”
“I was,” he protested.
With a chuckle, she pointed at her computer screen. “Do you want to know why I’m looking up Sarah Cole?”
He blew out a breath and leaned against the back of her chair. “Sure. Why are you digging into my case again?”
Claire shot him a quick, murderous look. “When I looked up those coordinates earlier, I found out that the property belongs to Sarah Cole.”
Ozzie straightened, the slightly annoyed look vanishing from his face. “What? You’re sure?”
“Yes. I was about to check the size of the parcel and to see if she owned any other property around the state.”
He frowned. “Why?”
“This is why you need us,” I interjected. “We don’t think like you do.”
He ran a hand through his hair. “Just tell me.”
“How does a woman who works as a home health aide own”—Claire paused to scroll down the screen—“five hundred and ten acres of Alaskan forest?”
“What?” Ozzie nudged her hands away from the keyboard so he could look at the record. “Is that all the property you found?”
“I haven’t dug that deeply yet.”
He stepped back and gestured to the laptop. “Dig.”
“Oh, now you want me to get involved?”
“Woman…” Exasperation colored his voice, thicker than before, and he rubbed his hands over his face.
She laughed. “You make it too easy.” Her hands returned to the keyboard.
“It’s been a long day. I spent most of it up in a plane, surveying the area. The forest is too dense to see much. We’re probably going to need to go in on foot.”
“If he hasn’t already spooked and left,” Ellis said.
“Yeah.” Ozzie snorted softly in agreement.
“So, it looks like Ms. Cole has a house in Anchorage… hmm…” The laptop screen moved as Claire scrolled.
“What?” Luke leaned around me, trying to see.
“She also has property near Haines. And more south of Juneau.” She straightened, looking to the side at Ozzie. “They’re not small, either. Haines is fifty acres. South of Juneau, she owns three-hundred-thirty.”
