When the Bough Breaks

Kellerman, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0689115199 / ISBN 13: 9780689115196

Published by U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1985

About this Item

Debut novel When the Bough Breaks introduced the world to Dr. Alex Delaware and author Jonathan Kellerman. Kellerman won a well-deserved Edgar Award for the mystery, and Delaware became a beloved character of mystery fiction. This is a clean, bright, square first edition copy, with only a small red spot on the red tops of the text block keeping it from as new or very fine condition. It has been archivally protected in a nonsmoking environment since the original purchase. The dust jacket is intact and unclipped, with slight fading of the spine. All in all, a beautiful copy of an important book. Kellerman INSCRIBED it, simply but warmly, to prominent mystery booksellers. Seller Inventory # 151075

Bibliographic Details

Title: When the Bough Breaks

Publisher: U.S.A.: Atheneum

Publication Date: 1985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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

From the Publisher:

"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 psychologis 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.

"An engrossing thriller... this knockout of an entertainment is the kind of book which establishes a career in one stroke." -- New York Newsday

"Suspenseful, neatly spun, fascinating." -- Philadelphia Daily News

"Grab yourself a copy soon." -- Los Angeles Times

"An exceptionally exciting thriller!" -- The New York Times