num_pages: 181
description: He was young - maybe twenty or so - and he must have once 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 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 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 though he had a screw loose. But he was scared - scared to death. He wanted to hire Kinsey.His 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.Kinsey Millhone never welshed on a deal. She'd been hired to stop a killing. Now she'd find the killer.
language: English
title: "C" is for Corpse
titlecomplete: "C" is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone #3)
characters: Carrie St. Cloud, Gus (C is for Corpse), Varden Talbot, Alfie Leadbetter, Blackman, Kelly Borden, Rick Bergen, Kinsey Millhone, Sufi Daniels, Lila Sams, Moza Lowenstein, Derek Wenner, Kitty Wenner, Dr. Jim Fraker, Nola Fraker, Henry Pitts, Jonah Robb, Franklin (C is for Corpse), Rosie (A is for Alibi), Glen Callaghan, Bobby Callahan, Dr. Kleinert
genres: Audiobook, Detective, Thriller, Adult Fiction, Crime, Suspense, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 51067
places: Santa Teresa, California
series: Kinsey Millhone
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best PI Hardcover
publisher: Henry Holt and Company