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

“Yeah, I see it now,” Nate said. “Where does that path lead?”


“Into the woods, but there’s no way to tell where it comes out on the other side of them.”


“How about those buildings on that back road?”


“You mean the road on the opposite side of the property?” Quentin said.


“Shit! I never even thought of that. Grab the camera and I’ll take a pad and pen. We’re going out into the boonies again.”


They started for the door, but Quentin said, “My map’s in my car.”


“So, I’ll drive us around to the garage, and you can get it.”


Some time, and no small amount of aggravation later, they were on what Quentin was certain was the road that ran behind the property they’d been looking at.


“There are a lot more mailboxes on this road,” Nate said.


Chapter 9