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 closed the laptop, and began to deal with his lunch. “Is there any news on all those graves, George? I haven’t seen any mention of the case in the news.”


“So far we’ve been able to keep a tight lid on this one, but it won’t last forever. Not with so many newshounds offering money to our people for hot tips. As for progress, there isn’t any at the moment, but we’re expecting some movement tomorrow,” George said. “The woman the two guys were working for is planning to visit them tomorrow, and when she does—”


“How’d you manage that?” Quentin said.


“Pure dumb luck. While one of them was being interrogated, his cell phone rang. The officer in the room had the phone in his possession, so he pushed the speaker button, handed the phone to the suspect, and told him to answer it… and what to say.”


“Wow! That was lucky,” Quentin said.


“Speaking of that case, I have some potential good news for you,” George said.


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