When the Bough Breaks

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

People: Alex Delaware (Fictitious character)

Places: Los Angeles (Calif.),  California,  Los Angeles

Times: 1985