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Patricia Cornwell gives us a strong character, Kay Scarpetta, whose role as forensic anthropologist pioneered a new perspective on crime and detection while capitalizing on the growing popularity of female detectives. Fans enjoy the wealth of scientific and medical details, and Cornwell's straightforward descriptions and explanations of the scientific data. Her fiction has complex plots, filled with satisfying twists. (goodreads.com)
 

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1. When the bough breaks

Book cover for "When the bough breaks"
Star rating for When the bough breaks
Author:
Kellerman, Jonathan
Series:
Alex Delaware novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
NEXT IN SERIES: BLOOD TEST
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Dr. Morton Hander practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Hander paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn. It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Meldoy's memory. But as the sinister shadows...