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When the Bough Breaks

An Alex Delaware Novel

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When the Bough Breaks

By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
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In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.

It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory. But as the sinister shadows in the girl's mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past.

This connection is only the beginning, a single link in a 40-year-old conspiracy. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn.

©2003 Jonathan Kellerman (P)2012 Random House Genre Fiction Medical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary

Critic Reviews

"An engrossing thriller.... this knockout of an entertainment is the kind of book which establishes a career in one stroke." ( New York Newsday)
"Suspenseful, neatly spun, fascinating." ( Philadelphia Daily News)
"Grab yourself a copy soon." ( Los Angeles Times)
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I love Kellerman. He writes an exciting plot and Mili is a wonderful side kick to the main character. But his main man is hideously sexist. It was the 80s but be ready for some shockers. Otherwise a ripping start to a remarkable series.

Brilliant characters but ...

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