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When the Bough Breaks
  
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When the Bough Breaks (Hardcover)

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The first Alex Delaware novel describes the child psychologist's efforts to solve an increasingly complicated murder when the only witness is a 7-year-old girl. Alexander Adams presents the first-person narration of Delaware's educated, personable, and lively speeches most effectively. In some of the lengthy conversational scenes, however, Adams favors a pause-laden approach that impedes suspense and slackens pace. (The most sluggish are the mid-book scenes at a liberal arts college.) Both Kellerman and Adams have enough fans, of course, for them to overlook this one drawback. On the whole, the enjoyable, if slowish, reading succeeds at capturing Kellerman's distinctive strengths of storytelling and style. G.H. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.


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One of Kellerman's novels, set in Southern California, combining detective fiction and psychological suspense. Alex Delaware, child psychologist, burned out and retired at 33, is consulted by the police and gets more and more obsessed with a case that endangers first his career and then his life.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Sort of like Shag Carpet, Janv. 28 2004
Par J. Minkey (San Carlos, CA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: When the Bough Breaks (Mass Market Paperback)
It's really sort of a trip back in time reading this book...so much of it probably worked pretty well in 1985 when this was written but the translation in 2004 doesn't quite make it. Trendy young Dr. Delaware, age 33, drives a Cadillac Seville and when it's disabled he rents a "boxy Japanese car". Lot's of amusing things crop up like that in this book which actually made me sort of nostalgic. I had to go listen to old Hall & Oates LP's to re-visit "Say It Isn't So" and "Maneater" again! It also has a central convention of the 80's that I'm currently sick to death of...struggling,impoverished minorities-Good Guys, White, affluent successful Christian Men who conspire-Bad Guys. Honestly, this formula is more stereotypical than "The Butler Did It" used to be. If you spot a successful white guy early in a story, especially if it's suggested that he's a Christian, he's probably the bad guy. If Kellerman wrote this book in 2004 it probably couldn't get published...it's way too formulaic! Consequenly a big part of my dislike of this book is because of this. It doesn't stop there however...many reviews here suggest that Jonathan Kellerman is a great writer. I think he's marginal at best. I think these characters are really pretty shallow and the whole idea of this psychologist single handedly solving crimes and beating up bad guys twice his size is goofy. Delaware points a gun at central villians on 2 separate occasions in the story and they admit to everything but their shoe size. Try to imagine Patrick Kenzie or Harry Bosch pointing a gun at a bad guy and having said bad guy collapse and outline every last element of the crime in great detail. It reminded me of those old Perry Mason shows where Perry always seems to get a witness to break down in open court and admit to his or her crime in front of a packed court room. Here's a suggestion: if you want to read a good mystery with child abuse as a theme read Dennis Lehane's "Gone Baby, Gone". Jonathan Kellerman should be writing scripts for TV detective shows...like Barnaby Jones
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3.0étoiles sur 5 My first by this author....., Déc 31 2002
Par pina3470 "pina3470" (Bronx, New York United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: When the Bough Breaks (Mass Market Paperback)
This is my first book by this author so I will have to be fair.. It is well written but very predictable.... It dragged on a bit in some areas, but I did manage to finish the book... I am still up in the air about trying another book of his... After reading several other reviews I notice that my complaint was very similiar to that of other reviewers.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Actually 3 1/2 stars...., Aoû 24 2002
Par Darren Jacks (North Hollywood, Ca) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: When the Bough Breaks (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the first of the series and it is a decent read, but at times looks like a first novel. It drags a bit but like I have said before Kellerman is not capable of writing a bad book. His average one's are better than 50 percent of what is being published today!

Kellerman does a superb job of detailing a 7-year old who is the possible only witness to a crime and her down-and-out mother, who should take parenting classes. I won't give away much, but this shows enough to get u hooked on Kellerman, Delaware (the main character), and Milo (his friend). A worthy debut!

Kellerman exhibits charcterization, smooth storytelling, and fantastic plotting. The only draw-back is lengthy conversations and parts that are a little slow. Nothing to convince u NOT to PURCHASE the BOOK!

Good job, Jon!

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