When the Bough Breaks

Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman

CRIME

From the internationally bestselling Jonathan Kellerman comes an explosive thriller featuring the legendary psychologist Alex Delaware Seven-year-old Melody Quinn is the only witness of a horrific double murder but she can't or won't talk about what she saw. Child psychologist Alex Delaware is brought in to try and get through to her and to the truth of what happened that night. But it soon becomes clear that Melody isn't just traumatised by the murders. Alex is only too aware that LA is a city which spawns ugliness. But is he prepared for the seemingly bottomless pit of perversion and violence that he's about to uncover?


Product Information

'A gruesome novel psychodrama of depravity and organised vice...assured skill and horripilating effect' -- Observer

After a distinguished career in child psychology, Jonathan Kellerman turned to writing full-time, and there are now over thirty million copies of his novels in print. He is also the author of two volumes of psychology. He lives in Southern California with his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, and their four children.

General Fields

  • : 9780755342815
  • : Headline Publishing Group
  • : Headline Book Publishing
  • : 0.24
  • : 21 February 2008
  • : 178mm X 111mm X 27mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jonathan Kellerman
  • : Paperback
  • : 813.54
  • : 448
  • : Adventure / thriller