"C" Is for Corpse: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery: 3 (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries 3)

You havent read a thriller until you read #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Graftons novels with her unforgettable P.I. Kinsey Millhone… C is for CorpseHe was young-maybe twenty or so-and he must once have been a good-looking kid. Kinsey could see that. But now his body was covered in scars his face half-collapsed. It saddened Kinsey and made her curious. She could see he was in a lot of pain. But for three weeks as Kinseyd watched him doggedly working out at the local gym putting himself through a grueling exercise routine he never spoke. . Then one Monday morning when there was no one else in the gym Bobby Callahan approached her. His story was hard to credit: a murderous assault by a tailgating car on a lonely rural road a roadside smash into a canyon 400 feet below his Porsche a bare ruin his best friend dead. The doctors had managed to put his body back together again-sort of. His mothers money had seen to that. What they couldnt fix was his mind couldnt restore the huge chunks of memory wiped out by the crash. Bobby knew someone had tried to kill him but he didnt know why. He knew he had the key to something that made him dangerous to the killer but he didnt know what it was. And he sensed that someone was still out there ready to pounce at the first sign his memory was coming back. Hed been to the cops but theyd shrugged off his story. His family thought he had a screw loose. But he was scared-scared to death. He wanted to hire Kinsey.. His case didnt have a whole lot going for it but he was hard to resist: young brave hurt. She took him on. And three days later Bobby Callahan was dead.. Kinsey Millhone never welshed a deal. Shed been hired to stop a killing. Now shed find the killer.. A Is for AlibiB Is for BurglarC Is for CorpseD Is for DeadbeatE Is for EvidenceF Is for FugitiveG Is for GumshoeH Is for HomicideI Is for InnocentJ Is for JudgmentK Is for KillerL is for LawlessM Is for MaliceN Is for NooseO Is for OutlawP Is for Peril Q Is for QuarryR Is for Ricochet S Is for Silence T Is for TrespassU Is for Undertow V Is for Vengeance W Is for Wasted X