Name: When the Bough Breaks
ISBN: 9780786237524

Jonathan Kellerman

The classic first novel starring child psychologist Alex Delaware is available again. A disturbed young girl leads to evidence of a shocking double murder and a child molester's gruesome suicide.

When the Bough Breaks

Retired psychologist Alex Delaware's reluctant treatment of a seven-year-old eyewitness to murder who refuses to speak forces him to relive the distasteful case that prompted his early retirement.

Nadine 

Interesting protagonists with diversity given this comes from the mid-80’s . Good escapist reading

Vicki Grever

Susan Forsythe

Kathryn Reyes

Originally published: New York: Atheneum, 1985.

When the Bough Breaks

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