When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1) (Windsor Selection S.)

by Jonathan Kellerman

Alex Delaware, a child psychologist, is drawn to a case that endangers first his career and then his life. He is asked to help get information from the little girl who was the only witness to a gruesome double murder. He examines a disturbed young girl and uncovers evidence of a brutal double murder, a child molester's grisly suicide, and a horrible forty-year old secret that continues to have an effect today.--Aurora Canadian Library.

• ISBN10: 0345466608
• ISBN13: 9780345466600
• Publish Date: 4 November 2003 (first published 1 March 1985)
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Out of Print: 11 October 2023
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Random House Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 432
• Language: English

Reviews

[mitabird]

3.5 stars

[ibeforem]

The Alex Delaware series is one of the first I read in this genre, probably 15 years ago. Of course, I started in the middle of the series and had yet to get around to the first books.

This was okay. I got a little bogged down in the mystery because a lot of the characters were similar to each other and I sometimes forgot who was being referred to. There was a lot of “the bad guy explains the entire scheme” at the end. However, it was worth it to see how Alex starts working for the police and the beginnings of his friendship with Milo and relationship with Robin.