It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.
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When the Bough Breaks
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by Jonathan Kellerman
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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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When The Bough Breaks: Alex Delaware #1
December 1, 1994, Bantam Book, div of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc.
Paperback
in English
- 1st Bantam Printing
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When the Bough Breaks: Alex Delaware #1
December 1, 1994, Bantam Book, div of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc., Bantam
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 14th Bantam Printing
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When the Bough Breaks
October 1, 1988, Random House Audio
Audio Cassette
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When the Bough Breaks
October 1, 1988, Random House Audio
Audio Cassette
in English
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Whisper's Lonely Heart
1986, New American Library, Signet Book: New American Library
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When the Bough Breaks
March 12, 1985, Atheneum
Hardcover
in English
- First edtion
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"It was shaping up to be a beautiful morning."
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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 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
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