“Obsessive.”
     “You want to use that word, fine.” Bondurant hitched his chanel bags jeans again andreturned to his truck on bandy legs. He put the antifreeze back on thepassenger seat, slapped the palm of his hand on the hood. The smoke had reducedto occasional wisps.
     He said, “Ready to go. Hope you find whoever killed that girl. Beautifulthing, damn shame.”
     The entrance to the property was unmarked. I overshot and had to travel halfa mile to find a spot wide chanel bags outlet enough for a U-turn. As is, my tires were inchesfrom blue space and I could feel Milo’stension.
     I coasted back slowly as he squinted at the plot map. Finally, he spottedthe opening—ungated and shaded by twisting sycamores. Hard-pack dirt rampinghigh above the canyon.
     Two S-turns and the surface converted to asphalt, continued to climb.
     “Keep it slow,” said Milo. Doing thecop-laser thing with his eyes. Nothing to see chanel bags but dense walls of oak and moresycamores, a skimpy triangle of light on the horizon suggesting an end point.
     Then, two acres in, the land flattened to a mesa curtained by mountains andcanopied by a cumulus-flecked sky. Uncultivated acres had given way tobunchgrass, coastal sage, yellow mustard, a few struggling loner oaks in thedistance. The asphalt drive cut through the meadow, straight and black as a ugg boots clearance draftsman’sline. Three-quarters of the way to the back of the property stood a massivebarn. Flanks of redwood board silvered by time. Dour slab-face unbroken bywindows, shingle roof wind-blunted at the corners. A ludicrously small frontdoor.
     Cool air carried some of the mustard tang our way.
     Milo said, “No building permits issued.”
     “Folks round these parts don’t truck with no guv-ment.”
     Nowhere to conceal the Sevillecompletely. I left it parked nike jordan heels off the asphalt, partially hidden by tree boughs,and we walked. Milo’s hand dangled over hisjacket.
     When we were fifty feet away, the building’s dimensions asserted themselves.Three stories high, a couple hundred feet wide.
     He said, “Thing that size but the door’s too small to get a car through.Wait here while I check the back.”