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When the Bough Breaks

An Alex Delaware Novel

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When the Bough Breaks

By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
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 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.©1988 Jonathan Kellerman and Bantam Audio Publishing; (P)1988 Bantam Audio Publishing, Random House AudioBooks, a Division of Random House, Inc. Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

Critic reviews

"An engrossing thriller... this knockout of an entertainment is the kind of book which establishes a career in one stroke." -- New York Newsday

"Suspenseful, neatly spun, fascinating." -- Philadelphia Daily News

"Grab yourself a copy soon." -- Los Angeles Times

"An exceptionally exciting thriller!" -- The New York Times
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Thankfully I had read a number of Jonathan Kellerman books, including this one many years ago, before listening to this recording which really doesn't do the book justice and tries to turn it into a cheesy 80's TV movie, complete with bad acting, sound effects and music. In fairness, it was hilarious and quite entertaining to listen to because it was so bad but if this is your first venture to Jonathan Kellerman's work, I'd recommend using a different audio recording or reading the book if possible as this does change the tone and doesn't get across the characters and storyline in the way it is written, in my opinion.

Great book, terrible recording

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