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.

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He stayed three or four cars behind Richards all the way down Normandy Boulevard until it became Post Street, and along Post Street until it hit Riverside Avenue. Richards turned left on Riverside Avenue, and so did Quentin. A few blocks later, Richards pulled in behind a familiar building. Assuming he just had a sexual workout, why’s he going to the Y?Quentin followed at a discreet distance, and when Richards went inside the building, Quentin grabbed his gym bag, joined a couple of guys who’d just returned from running, and walked into the building with them.


Quentin checked in at the front desk, went to the locker-room, and walked around the rows of lockers until he spotted Richards, who was by that time, clad in a towel and clearly headed for the steam room. Quentin took an empty locker, stowed his clothes, grabbed a towel, and went to the steam room, where he settled down on a bench across the room from his quarry.


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