Jonathan Kellerman
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| Original Title: | When the Bough Breaks |
| ISBN: | 0345466608 (ISBN13: 9780345466600) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Alex Delaware #1 |
| Characters: | Alex Delaware |
| Literary Awards: | Anthony Award for Best First Novel (1986), Edgar Award for Best First Novel (1986) |
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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 forty-year-old conspiracy. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn.Describe Based On Books When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware #1)
| Title | : | When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware #1) |
| Author | : | Jonathan Kellerman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | November 4th 2003 by Ballantine Books (first published April 1st 1985) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 58346 Users | 844 ReviewsDiscuss Based On Books When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware #1)
This was the beginning of it all! Jonathan Kellerman pulled me into the Alex Delaware series, hook, line, sinker. If you haven't checked it out. Do so! So good!This noveland this series--begins with child psychologist Alex Delaware enjoying a relaxed early retirement, a retirement fueled by burnout and precipitated by a shock. After weeks of interviews with a score of molested children in a particularly vicious pre-school case, Delaware returns to his office to find that their molester Stuart Hickle has killed himself--gun in mouth--on Delaware's own couch. Soon Alex's friend police detective Milo Sturgis coaxes him back for a simple consulting job,
3 ½ stars. Slightly above average. Ok as a mystery.The beginning was very good. I liked the way Alex investigated. Example, Alex needs to talk to a 7 year old girl who saw something. The girls mother is ignorant and poor and keeps the daughter on drugs to keep her quiet. Alex talks to the girls Doctor who prescribes the drugs. The Doctor wont stop the drugs, he has a huge ego, he talks down to Alex. Alex befriends the girl. They go to the beach and a merry-go-round. Theres a whole mini story
Alex Delaware was brilliant in the beginning. A child psychologist who went where no crime 'detective' had been before. Melody Quinn is a seven-year-old witness to crimes committed by a psychiatrist who has manipulated and extorted his patients for years.Jonathan Kellerman had a beautiful beginning with Alex.
Great read! a good storyline with detailed topic that was both sensitive and interesting..had good narrative with some well developed and defined characters (paperback!)
3.75. I have become a fan of Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mystery series, so I decided to read her husband Jonathan's first book about Dr. Alex Delaware. Even though both series are about detectives, they are different in scope. Whereas Decker has been a cop for 20 years and looking to move up ranks, Delaware is a young, retired child psychologist who befriends a detective named Milo Sturgis and helps out on his cases. Additionally, Rina loves to get involved in Decker's cases,
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