When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware #1)

Jonathan Kellerman

Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
4.02 · 34 ratings · 450 pages · Published: 01 Apr 1985
When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman
The first Alex Delaware novel. It's a good one!

We meet Dr. Morton Handler who 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.

Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job is to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory. 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 forty-year-old conspiracy. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn.
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