When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware)
by Jonathan Kellerman
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Author: Jonathan KellermanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11-04
ISBN: 0345466608
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Great start to a great series
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first book in the Alex Delaware series and starts with
Detective Milo Sturgis asking his pal Dr. Alex Delaware to help with a
witness. Alex is a retired child psychologist - retired after burning
out and breaking down following the suicide of a pedophile in his
office. Now, he's pretty much a California beach bum and Milo thinks he
needs some distraction. He really does need help with this witness,
though. A Psychologist and his girlfriend were brutally murdered and the
only witness is a little 7 year old girl who can't remember seeing
anything more that shadows. Milo thinks maybe Alex can talk with her,
maybe hypnotize her - at least try because thay have no other leads at
all.
Alex does gets involved - more involved than he planned on. This sweet
child really sucks him in and the more he digs, the more he finds this
case ties into the suicide at his office. He digs too deep, though,
stirs up enough dirt to get Milo pulled from the case and even
suspended. It's a nasty tale of big shot perversion and Alex digs deep
enough to
endanger his own life. Can Milo get to him in time to save him?
I'd read a couple later books in the series before this one and it was
fun to see how Alex and Milo meet and how Alex met his girlfriend Robin.
I saw the made for TV movie based on this book before I read it too, so
I had some idea of what to expect. It is full of twists, though, and
the ending threw me for a loop. No WAY did I expect this ending!
I highly recommend this series as the pinnacle of the Psychological
thriller.
Summary of When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware)
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.
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