The classic first novel starring child psychologist Alex Delaware is available again. A disturbed young girl leads to evidence of a shocking double murder and a child molester's gruesome suicide.
When the Bough Breaks
โ Scribed by Jonathan Kellerman
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books;Random House
- Year
- 1985;2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Edition
- 1st Ballantine books ed
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Review
"An engrossing thriller... this knockout of anentertainment is the kind of book which establishes acareer in one stroke." -- New YorkNewsday
"Suspenseful,neatly spun, fascinating." -- Philadelphia DailyNews
"Grab yourself a copy soon."-- Los Angeles Times
"An exceptionally exciting thriller!" --The New York Times
From the Publisher
"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 psychologis 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.
"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
"An exceptionally exciting thriller!" -- The New York Times
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