November 27, 2012

• When the Bough Breaks

  The book I am reviewing in this post is When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman which is an excellent thriller which I bought from a secondhand bookstore. This is his first novel and the first in the Alex Delaware series and also it won an edgar award for best thriller. The plot is Alex is asked to come out of early retirement to become an advisor to the LAPD. He is a psychologist and trained doctor & took early retirement to enjoy life. As with a lot of this series there are two murder cases running in parallel. One is a child who was sexually abused by his father has witnessed the murder of his father and they need to try and get him to talk about it. The other is a psychologist who has long become disillusioned with his job has been murdered by one of his patients. His records are not kept in a professional manner and he writes sarcastic comments about them. It seems almost any of them could have killed him. There is a happy outcome to both cases. In the former case he is also unhappy about the conditions of the foster home the child is sent to. It also seems the child has been abused by others and his mother was involved. This is a very powerful & Kellerman is also a qualified psychologist and doctor like Delaware and has similiar experience.

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