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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) |
Jonathan Kellerman
Paperback | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 4.03 | 58346 Users | 844 Reviews
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| Title | : | When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware #1) |
| Author | : | Jonathan Kellerman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First 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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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.Rating About Books When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware #1)
Ratings: 4.03 From 58346 Users | 844 ReviewsRate About Books When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware #1)
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.This series is consistently good. I am glad I found a go to author that will reliably write something I enjoy reading. This is the first in the series, and I decided to read them in order. I think it was a good decision. This book describes Milo and Alex first meeting, and the character building is important. For me, character driven writing is what enables immersion in the plot. This author excels at it, and he definitely brings the protagonist to life. I am sure his background in psychology
I really enjoy this mystery series. Both the author and the main protagonist are child psychologists, and so the books have many characters that are children, and I love reading books about kids. This is the first book in the Alex Delaware series. As with most mystery series, because of the growth & development & life changes of the recurring main characters, they should be read in order for the most enjoyment.
An entertaining beach read, When the Bough Breaks netted Kellerman an Edgar award for best debut novel and spawned a series still that's still commercially viable after three plus decades. The writing is smooth and inoffensive without ever being great and I can see why Kellerman became successful. He writes lucidly, keeps the pace moving with a nice balance of intrigue, humor and action. However there is no way the protagonist - a retired child psychologist, Alex Delaware can keep being injected
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!
Nice one, read this years and years ago.
Jonathan Kellerman began the Alex Delaware series in 1985 with the 29th book in the series scheduled for publication in early 2014. This review is being written in January 2014. I have a bookshelf of Alex Delaware books as I went on a used book buying binge after I first discovered Kellerman. I read Monster about a year ago. It has taken me a while to get back to him. I am reading a couple of serious books but began casting around for a book that might be a page turner for me, something that I
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