Telepathic private investigator Quentin Q. Quasar and his partner Nate Braddock are back. They accidentally stumble on a series of kidnapping/murders, and begin to investigate. Eventually, the kidnappers snatch a young man from an Interstate rest area, and Quentin and Nate hear his telepathic cry for help. Armed with that information, they contact their friend George Martin at the sheriff’s office, and manage to catch the kidnappers before they’ve killed the victim. The intended victim was on his way to Orlando to join his boyfriend -- also a telepath -- who’d recently moved there to take a job.<br><br>Meanwhile, Nate’s grandparents fly into Jacksonville from Chattanooga, so Quentin and Nate can drive them to a hospital in Ocala. Nate’s mother has been in a state prison for women located near Ocala, and has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. At the end of a series of hospital visits they encounter and capture the leader of the cult that Nate’s mother and stepfather belonged to. The cult leader and his wife, both of whom had jumped bail before their trials, had just administered poison to Nate’s mother, to keep her from making any sort of deathbed confession about the cult and its activities.

Sleuth LLC: Bring Out Your Dead

As Nate pulled the car into their garage, he said, “I just remembered something.”


“Remember our first trip up I-75 in your Mustang?”


“I wanted to see how fast it would go, and you reminded me of the consequences of getting too many tickets.”


“You also promised me something,” Nate said.


“Yes you did. You said you knew some back roads where I could safely give all those horses free rein, but we never got around to doing that.”


“Put it on our calendar for Friday or Saturday night, babe, and we’ll do it.”


“I’m going to hold you to it, this time.”


They exited the car and went into their house.


“It’s nice, not having to carry luggage, isn’t it?” Nate said—a reference to the complete wardrobes they’d begun maintaining in their mountain home.


“That’s true, although I think we ought to keep at least one overnight case in the car for emergencies,” Quentin said.


Chapter 5