Chapter 13

Joe decided Derek had been correct when he said doing background checks could be boring. He couldn’t imagine spending half a day searching for tons of information on a person, or more likely several people, that one of the clients needed to know about. It probably becomes automatic in time, but right now…He’d entered the information on the second person and moved on to the third when the desk phone rang.

Derek came over to answer it, taking the cordless phone with him as he spoke to what sounded to Joe like a regular client. When he finished, he set the phone back on the stand, went into the storeroom, and came back carrying two boxes. “I have to leave. Ms. Wiley had finally decided she needs a couple of cameras to catch shoplifters.”

“What if someone calls or comes in while you’re gone?”