A review by em_beddedinbooks
When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman

4.0

it was a thrillin' thriller. Remember having read this book many years ago, but when I started again, there was not even a vestige of memory. Thoroughly enjoyed the initial 3/4 of the book, last 50 pages were not that good, as is usual in my case whenever I read a mystery/thriller. The tension builds up, builds up and then goes flat. This is the first of the Alex Delaware series. Alex is a 32 year old jaded child psychologist who is in a deep funk and has retired to enjoy a life of solitude, when his detective friend Milo drags him into a case involving murder of a psychiatrist and his current girl friend, the perps of which were supposedly witnessed by a seven year old girl, who's not divulging anything. His role is to psychoanalyse and hypnotize the girl and get to the bottom of the truth. He starts reluctantly but is soon pulled into the cycle of events, and finally almost single handedly solves the case. There are surprising twists towards the end. All in all a very good book.