When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware Series #1)

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of Serpentine comes the first thrilling novel in the Alex Delaware series, a gripping psychological murder mystery about a teenage boy accused of six murders.

Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have...