When the Bough Breaks
By: Jonathan Kellerman.
Edition: First edtion
Series: Alex Delaware #1
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: March 12, 1985
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 295
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Psychologists -- Fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
First sentence: It was shaping up to be a beautiful morning.
Description: We meet Dr. Morton Handler who 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.

Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job is to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory. 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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