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Title: When The Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman, Alexander Adams ISBN: 0-7366-5588-3 Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. Pub. Date: 18 August, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette List Price(USD): $72.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.72 (25 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Actually 3 1/2 stars....
Comment: 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!
Rating: 5
Summary: A gut-wrenching, heart wrenching drama. Well done.
Comment: This was the first book I read by Kellerman, and I still feel it's his best. The author spins a well-woven drama, with important characters and a steady build. It was at times difficult, but really more sad, only because of what happens to a child. The tale is gripping. It got me hooked on Alex Delaware novels. I've read most of them since reading "When The Bough Breaks". If you haven't read any of Kellerman's Alex Delaware novels, and read but one, make it this one. Then you'll find you've made a liar out of yourself. It'll hook you.
Rating: 2
Summary: Sort of like Shag Carpet
Comment: 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.
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Title: Blood Test by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0553569635 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Over the Edge: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0451206002 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Devil's Waltz by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0553563521 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Silent Partner by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345460685 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Time Bomb by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345460693 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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