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

“The ass end of whatever car turns off the street and heads down those ruts.”


Quentin exited the car, moved forward several feet, and crouched behind the overgrown hedge with his camera ready. Several minutes later, a silver, late-model BMW slowed down, then turned onto the rutted track. Quentin focused on the license plate, and was still clicking the shutter when the car was out of sight.


When Quentin was back behind the steering wheel, Nate said, “Are we going to our tree?”


“Let’s see if we can pick them up from here. If I read those maps correctly, we’re not too much farther from that hill at this point.


“BEFORE WE BEGIN our mental eavesdropping this time, Nate, I think we need to be extra careful with our shields.”


“Because, from what we’ve learned listening in on Harv and Marv, the woman they refer to as ‘she’ sounds like a very dangerous adversary.”


Chapter 21