Best utility for recovering accidentally deleted files?

Hello,
I accidentally deleted some files that I would like to get back.  I deleted them from Trash but I did not use the "secure delete" method.  I am using OSX 10.9.2.  I browsed Apple's app store and found a handfull of recovery utilities, but none that were not called "junk" by at least one reviewer.  Can someone recommend a file recovery utility that has worked well for them?
Thanks.

And, you should stop using the computer as the space occupied by those deleted files will be written over with whatever you are doing now and makes the files less recoverable. (Your hard drive is like a re-writeable CD/DVD - a bunch of songs or data; you delete one but replace it with a different one, so the space is being used again).

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