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***

First Sentence

It was shaping up as a beautiful morning.

Subjects

Genres

• Fiction

Other Editions

• When the bough breaksChivers Press2001-01-01
• When the Bough BreaksHardcoverAtheneum1985-03-12
• Whisper's Lonely HeartNew American Library1986-01-01
• When the bough breaksNew American Library1986-01-01
• When the bough breaksFutura1986-01-01
• When the bough breaksNew American Library1986-01-01