When the Bough Breaks
by Jonathan Kellerman
Copyright: 1985
Pages: 351
Rating: 5/5
Read: Sept. 14-17, 2009
Challenge: 2009 100+ Reading Challenge; 2009 1st in a Series Challenge; A Well-Rounded Challenge; 2009 Celebrate the Author; RYOB 2009
Yearly Count: 47
First Line: It was shaping up as a beautiful morning.
Alex Delaware is a well-known and established child psychologist when he burns out at the age of thirty-two. But he gets involved when his friend, LA police detective Milo Sturgis, enlists his help as a “consultant” with the department. Charged with helping a terrified seven-year-old girl who might have seen the perpertrators of a horrific murder, he is intrigued with the entire case whereas the police seem less impassioned about it. Determined to get to the bottom of the case, he is caught up in a web of unimaginable evil and a forty-year-old secret.
I have read a few of the more recent Alex Delaware novels and have enjoyed them, so I was really excited to finally read the first in this series. I learned so much about who Alex and Milo really are that I had missed out on in the later books. I was so intrigued by all the twists and turns. Kellerman really wrote a great story with this one. I’m probably like the last person on earth to have read this book, but if you haven’t read this one before I highly recommend this one.
Tales of a Book Addict 
I’ve read other books by Mr. Kellerman too, but never the first one. I need to read this one and I am pretty sure I have it. Glad to see you like it so much!
This whole series is pretty fantastic! I’m glad you had a chance to go back to the beginning. You won’t regret it!
Lezlie
I’ve read books from this series but never in order either. I should pick this one up from the library and go back to the beginning. Great review!