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

Quentin walked across the parking lot until he was behind the van, where he couldn’t be seen from the restrooms. Nate watched, as Quentin bent down and fumbled with the laces on one of his shoes, then straightened up, and returned to the car.


“What did you do that for?” Nate said.


“I slipped a tracking device under the back bumper of the van.”


“Wow! That was clever of you. I couldn’t even tell what you did.”


“That was the general idea, babe. A quick fumble with shoelaces, and an equally quick movement of my right hand was all it took.”


“Marv and Harv have been in the restroom for a long time, haven’t they?”


“Yeah. Maybe I’d better go have a look,” Quentin said.


“No. I want you right here, with a camera ready to take Harv and Marv’s pictures when they return to their van. You can stay in rapport with me while I go inside.”


Quentin exited the car again, and Nate tuned in.


Chapter 14