Every investigator finds something. These seven wish they hadn't.In seven dark, unflinching stories, Better Left Unfound goes where the case file goes quiet: into the stakeouts, records rooms, insurance files, and sealed basements of private investigation, where finding the truth is only the beginning.A broke Providence detective in 1948 takes a generous job reuniting lost families, and never asks why it pays so well.An Ohio investigator is hired by a three-time widow to prove there's nothing to find, and learns exactly why she chose him.A private investigator drops money in the kitchen tin every night and never notices what's missing.A former reporter is hired by a grieving mother to find out why a killer picked her daughter's house.At a Texas investigators' conference, a veteran PI decides that enough is enough.An honest insurance investigator finds out what honesty costs.And a night security guard walks into a psychiatric ward sealed since 1987 to check a door that should never have been opened.Written by Eric S. Neal, a skip tracer with more than twenty years in recovery-based investigations and the author of Judgment Recovery and The FOIA Advantage, these stories get the work right: the court indexes and directories, the long hours of surveillance, the reports that decide what happens to people, and the quiet moment an investigator realizes what the file really says.For readers of dark crime fiction, noir, and psychological suspense, and for anyone who has ever worked a case.Intended for adult readers. Some stories contain mature themes. Read more
