“Read me the account name on that check again.”

“Vance Analytics Holdings.”

She wrote it, then wrote it a second time underneath, and put a box around the second one.

“Were there cameras in that house?”

“Four that I know of.

Living room, kitchen, front door, and one in the dining room, pointed at the table.”

Elena looked up from the page and held still for a moment.

Then the phone on the table lit up, face up, a Lake Forest number, and she answered with her name and nothing else and carried it to the window.