C Is For Corpse, Sue Grafton
C Is For Corpse, Sue Grafton
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C Is For Corpse

Author: Sue Grafton

Narrator: Mary Peiffer

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2005

Synopsis

Bobby Callahan was only 20 when an accident left him disfigured for life. The doctors patched up his body but they couldn't fix his mind.

Huge chunks of his memory were lost but he knew someone had tried to kill him and that the "accident" was deliberate. He knew he had the key to something that made him dangerous to the murderer but he didn't know what. No one believed him... so he hired Kinsey Millhone.

Three days later Bobby was dead. But Kinsey never welshed on a deal. She'd been hired to stop a killing, now she'd find the killer instead.

About Sue Grafton

A contemporary American author of detective novels, Sue Taylor Grafton, was born in Louisville, Kentucky as the daughter of another detective novelist, C. W. Grafton. Even though her father had an influence, she has commented that her biggest influence came from author Ross MacDonald.

Sue received her bachelor's degree from University of Louisville in English literature, humanities, and fine art. Upon graduation, Sue worked as a hospital admissions clerk, cashier, and medical secretary. She wrote several novels that were not successful.

After moving into writing screenplays for television, Sue became interested in novels that carried a central theme through each title. She saw a book that alphabetized methods of murder, and immediately started writing what became her best-known works, "the alphabet novels". Each story is set around a fictional California town based on Santa Barbara. The novels are written from the perspective of a female investigator. After her G novel, Grafton was able to devote all of her time to writing her novels. She has given many refusals to those who wanted to buy her novels from which to make movies. She has no desire to work with Hollywood.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on September 11, 2017

Review 4 of 5 stars to C is for Corpse. Another fun adventure with Kinsey Millhone. But this time, she's got a case that's twice as hard because the person who's hired her has a bit of amnesia from a recent accident. But he's certain someone's trying to kill him. What's always interesting......more

Goodreads review by Jilly on March 05, 2019

Oh crap, Kinsey is not only still jogging way to much for me to have to read about it, but now she's working out at the gym too. And, we get detailed descriptions on which machines she uses, how much weight she lifts, and every other excruciatingly dull minutia involved in a gym trip. Why??? Why wou......more

Goodreads review by Claire on March 23, 2009

This was the first of the "alphabet" books that I read, and I remember vividly staying up until 3 am reading it, and then being unable to sleep! Kinsey's voice and personality really resonated with me, which is pretty disheartening since so many reviewers seem to find her unlikeable. I love Grafton'......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on February 07, 2023

C is for Corpse was Sue Grafton’s third book in her signature alphabet series starring the singular private detective Kinsey Milhone. In this third installment, Kinsey is hired by a young man injured in a car accident that he believes was meant as an attempted murder upon his life. The young man, Bo......more

Goodreads review by Baba on December 25, 2020

Kinsey Millhone case No. 3: Kinsey is hired by a disabled man who claims he was a victim of attempted murder and not a simple car crash as believed by all. Once again an interesting concept is marred by the pedestrian template writing and weak storytelling... small improvement on the previous book i......more

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