Title: When the Bough Breaks
First published: 1985
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 witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.***

**It's child 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.*--Goodreads***
Subjects: Johathan Kellerman, Series, Alex Delaware, #1, Fiction, Literature, Books, Stories, Story, Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, E-book, Murder, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Psychologists, Child psychologists, Mystery fiction, Investigation, Child witnesses, Alex Delaware (Fictitious character), Large type books, California, fiction, Delaware, alex (fictitious character), fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles
People: Alex Delaware (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 1985