![]() ![]() When the Bough Breaks is the first in a long-running series featuring child psychologist, Alex Delaware. I was fortunate enough to pick up a copy of this book in a large book sale while on vacation. When the Bough Breaks is the first in his Alex Delaware series of which I read book 36, Serpentine, in the series a while back. I’ve read a couple of Jonathan Kellerman books prior to this one and I rather like his easy-to-read, writing style, mixed in with topics that can be hard to digest. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn. This connection is only the beginning, a single link in a forty-year-old conspiracy. 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. Alex Delaware’s job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody’s memory. ![]() The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn. ![]() Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Morton Handler who practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. In the first Alex Delaware novel, we meet Dr. Source: Private Collection Blurb/Synopsis ![]()
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