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

“Of course, babe. But I’ve got plenty of time. Our buddies are having lunch, then driving all the way out to the beach to pick up Marv’s van. That gives me at least two hours, maybe longer.”


“Okay, Q, but be careful. It took me twenty years to find you, and I don’t want to lose you.”


Quentin gave Nate a kiss. “I’ll be right back, babe.”


Nate got out of the passenger seat, and walked around the car to get in the driver’s seat, then he pulled the Mustang up to their earlier vantage point. He watched Quentin walk casually across the road and into the woods, then he reached out mentally.


Chapter 22