C is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone Mystery)
Kinsey meets him in the local gym. Bobby Callahan is a scarred young man struggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a canyon, battering his body and muddling his memory. All he remembers is that someone, for some reason, tried to kill him. Desperate for clues about...
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Kinsey meets him in the local gym. Bobby Callahan is a scarred young man struggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a canyon, battering his body and muddling his memory. All he remembers is that someone, for some reason, tried to kill him. Desperate for clues about his own past life and certain he is being stalked, he asks Kinsey to protect him. Kinsey can't resist the brave kid - and neither can the killers. Three days late Bobby is dead. Kinsey Millhone never welshed on a deal. She'd been hired to stop a killing. Now she'd find the killer.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553280364 (0553280368)
Publish date: April 1st 1987
Publisher: Crimeline
Pages no: 214
Edition language: English
Series: Kinsey Millhone (#3)
I still love Kinsey, but this was not my favorite book.I got frustrated halfway through because it felt like it was just going in circles and it was a little boring.It did come together in the end, and nicely, just getting there was an issue for me.Still, I look forward to reading the next mystery i...
This book is told in reverse - we're told at the very beginning who the "C" is, just not why. Even so, Grafton made me care, and care a lot, about the victim. There is a lot of character development going on in this book - we see Kinsey becoming an emotionally three dimensional main character, wit...
Wow. This book was great. Great writing, better development with characters, a nice side plot involving Henry and Rosie, and a great ending. Kinsey in book number three I think finally gives you enough yo want to stick with her. You hear about the accident that left her orphaned. Other characters...
I really enjoyed this. The best of the series so far. Despite her saying that Bobby was dead in the first page, I was still upset when it actually happened.
One of the things I love about the Kinsey Milhone series is that they are anything but formulaic. Every story is new and fresh. The case Kinsey has taken on is brought to her by a young man who was nearly killed in a automobile accident. Everyone believes it was just an accident except the boy hims...