Name: When the Bough Breaks
Rating: 3.428571428571428 (7 reviews)

Jonathan Kellerman

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.

When the Bough Breaks

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.

Alex Delaware #1

Fran Lewis

It was nice to read the first in the series. Pi wanted to know when Alex met Milo.

Nadine 

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

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Susan Forsythe

It began with a double murder: particularly vicious, particularly gruesome. There was only one witness: but little Melody Quinn can't or won't say a word. Which is where child psychologist Alex Delaware comes in - and takes the first step into a maelstrom of atrocities...

When the Bough Breaks

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