Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman is an American novelist and psychologist best known for the Alex Delaware series of mystery and psychological thrillers, which follows a child psychologist who consults for the Los Angeles Police Department. The first book, When the Bough Breaks, launched that series, and Kellerman's later fiction includes The Murderer's Daughter, in which a psychologist is drawn into a deadly investigation that reaches back into her own childhood. Kellerman has won both the Edgar and Anthony awards.