She was about to say, I don’t know, except they did know some things. “Denise was an accountant. Her best friend was Victoria Mills, who was a Realtor who primarily handled large land transactions. Before Stanley Grant was killed, he told Max that Victoria was working with Harrison Monroe, but he specifically said he didn’t know who he was. Yet we learned that Monroe went to college with Stan and the others, so of course he’d know him. My guess is that it’s some sort of money laundering, but how and why? I don’t know anything about land fraud, but there would have to be a paper trail.”

“Only if someone is looking. And with people on the inside knowing how to report information, how to set up the taxes and deeds—it would be extremely difficult to uncover a crime unless someone came forward.”

“They killed an entire family, Dillon. For what? Money. It sickens me.”

“Use it, don’t let it eat you up. And that’s the key: Follow the money.”

“And we’re at a dead end. The money that Denise Albright allegedly embezzled is gone, and the money Stan embezzled— Oh. Oh! There is a paper trail on Stan’s embezzlement, and it’s much newer.”

“Provided he didn’t actually do it.”

“We have a trail of the Albright embezzlement up until we lost it overseas. I need someone really good to compare them.”

“Max’s boyfriend Ryan is an SSA of White Collar in New York. And you can always call Dean in Sacramento.”

“That’s going over everyone’s head in my office, but maybe. Sean pulled all the recent land transactions that Victoria’s company was involved with, but we haven’t been able to make heads or tails of the information. It all seems standard. Maybe the gambling was a red herring, so to speak.”

“Whoa, what? Gambling? What does that have to do with anything?”

“Grant’s motive for embezzling money from his own company was that he went back to gambling. He had a problem in college. But Sean couldn’t find any recent gambling debts. We think he used that as a motive that people would buy, because of his past. But everyone Max talked to said Grant hasn’t gambled since college.”

“You said he had a problem in college—high-stakes illegal gambling is a huge business. It’s not really under the purview of the Violent Crimes Squad, but Kate’s been working on a project with national headquarters related to illegal gambling on the dark web. And while Internet gaming—legal and illegal—has exploded, old-school gamblers prefer face-to-face games. Poker, blackjack, things like that. High stakes.”

“This is completely out of my comfort zone. I’ve never investigated illegal gambling.”