num_pages: 448
description: 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 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 Melody Quinn.
language: English
title: When the Bough Breaks
titlecomplete: When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)
characters: Kim Hickle, Margaret Dopplemeier, Augustus McCaffrey, Earl (When the Bough Breaks), Jeffrey Saxon, Marty Minassian, Mrs. Bonita Quinn, Tim Kruger, Maurice Bruno, Milo Sturgis, Melody Quinn, Raquel Ochoa, Cora (When the Bough Breaks), Cary Nemeth, Olivia Brickerman, Robin Castagna, Delano Hardy, Bill Roberts (When the Bough Breaks), Jim Halstead, Ned Biondi, Professor Van der Graaf, Dr. Morton Handler, Rodney Broussard, Michael Penn and Roy Longstreth, Edwin G. Hayden, Alex Delaware, Elaine / Elena Gutierrez, Rick Silverman, Stuart Hickle, Dr. Lionel Willard Towle
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense, Psychological Thriller
ratings_count: 64982
places: Seattle, Washington, Washington (state), Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles, California
series: Alex Delaware
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Bantam