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

“No telling how far those ruts go, but I don’t see any signs of habitation,” Quentin said.


“We turn around and go back in the other direction until we find another address.”


“Yes, it is, for a little while. Then it gets old.”


“Don’t play the jaded P.I., Q. I know how much you enjoy your work.”


Quentin turned the car around and retraced their steps until they’d found another mailbox and a cross street.


“That will give me enough to go on for a search,” he said. “Shall we go home now?”


Quentin headed for home, where he went straight from the garage, through the house, and to his office with Nate following.


“Sure. Go to the Duval County Property Appraiser’s website, and search for one of those addresses while I search for the other.”


“Good thing you finally put a second desk and computer in here when I started helping you, isn’t it?” Nate said.


Chapter 8