C is for Corpse - Sue Grafton

n nYou haven't read a thriller until you read #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton's novels with her unforgettable P.I. Kinsey Millhone... n nC is for Corpse n nHe 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 Kinsey'd watched him doggedly working out at the local gym, putting himself through a grueling exercise routine, he never spoke. n nThen 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 mother's money had seen to that.

What they couldn't fix was his mind, couldn't restore the huge chunks of memory wiped out by the crash. Bobby knew someone had tried to kill him, but he didn't know why. He knew he had the key to something that made him dangerous to the killer, but he didn't 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. He'd been to the cops, but they'd shrugged off his story. His family thought he had a screw loose.

But he was scared-scared to death. He wanted to hire Kinsey.n nHis case didn't 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.n nKinsey Millhone never welshed a deal. She'd been hired to stop a killing. Now she'd find the killer.n nA Is for Alibi nB Is for Burglar nC Is for Corpse nD Is for Deadbeat nE Is for Evidence nF Is for Fugitive nG Is for Gumshoe nH Is for Homicide nI Is for Innocent nJ Is for Judgment nK Is for Killer nL is for Lawless nM Is for Malice nN Is for Noose nO Is for Outlaw nP Is for Peril nQ Is for Quarry nR Is for Ricochet nS Is for Silence nT Is for Trespass nU Is for Undertow nV Is for Vengeance nW Is for Wasted nXn