Alex Delaware · Book 5
Time Bomb
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 494
- ISBN-13
- 9780739342855
- Type
- novel

About this book
At 494 pages, "Time Bomb" (1990) is the fifth case for Alex Delaware, the LA child psychologist whose consulting work for the LAPD often uncovers cult dynamics, childhood trauma or the damage that wealth and status can disguise.
Its place in Alex Delaware
Time Bomb is book 5 in the Alex Delaware series. It follows Silent Partner. It is followed by Private Eyes. See the full Alex Delaware reading order.
Alex Delaware is a child psychologist in Los Angeles, semi-retired from private practice by burnout and a healthy trust fund, who keeps getting pulled back into consulting on cases -- almost always at the request of his closest friend, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis. Jonathan Kellerman, himself a clinical psychologist before he became a novelist, builds each book around the psychology of victims, witnesses and killers as much as the crime itself: cult dynamics, childhood trauma, family pathology and the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780708848500
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553057966
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345463784