Sue Grafton
C Is for Corpse
Paperback
(Crimeline March 15, 1987)
Kinsey Millhone meets Bobby Callahan in the local gym. He is a scarred young man struggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a canyon. Someone tried to kill him. He asks Kinsey to protect him thinking he is now being stalked. Three days later bobby is dead. Kinsey has never welshed on a deal and now she is out to find the killer.