Almost from the start, Colin could tell that Google — or the internet in general — wasn’t going to help him much on his quest. There should at least have been documents on file with the Yavapai County recorder’s office showing any transactions involving real estate. That stuff was in the public record, after all. But he couldn’t seem to find anything. It wasn’t that properties didn’t trade hands in Jerome; they did, although not with the sort of turnover he would have expected. No, it was that no one with the last name of McAllister seemed to be involved in any of those deals, which didn’t make a whole hell of a lot of sense to him.
It was almost as if all those properties had come into the family early on, and then had been quietly handed down when someone passed away, or possibly traded
