“What do you need?”

“Everything that’s been filed in the last ten days.”

She came back with a stack and set it down without straightening it.

“The appraisal’s in there.

That came in yesterday.”

The appraisal was a single page.

Three stories plus a basement, effective the tenth of the month, and the requester line said Northline Valuation Group, a name I had never heard in my life or in my father’s.

“Who ordered this appraisal?”