When the Bough Breaks
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 351
- ISBN-13
- 9780553569612
- Type
- novel
About this book
"When the Bough Breaks" (1985) is the first entry in Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series, in which the semi-retired LA child psychologist keeps getting pulled back into consulting for LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis. It runs 351 pages.
Key facts about When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks is a novel by Jonathan Kellerman. Readers have had it since 1985. It runs to 351 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of When the Bough Breaks. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780553569612 to find the main one.
When the Bough Breaks is book 1 of 41 in the Alex Delaware series. The series has 40 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Jonathan Kellerman writes Clay Edison as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery shelf.
About Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman is an American author and clinical psychologist whose Alex Delaware series -- begun with When the Bough Breaks in 1985 -- helped popularize the psychologist-detective as a crime-fiction archetype. See every Jonathan Kellerman book in order.
Its place in Alex Delaware
When the Bough Breaks is book 1 in the Alex Delaware series. It is followed by Blood Test. 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 9780553569612
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451148704
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451142498