Death Row - Softcover

Katz, Jon

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ISBN 10: 0553578162 ISBN 13: 9780553578164

Publisher: Crimeline, 1999

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Kit Deleeuw, the Suburban Detective, has carved out an improbable career as a private eye amid the shopping malls and soccer fields of New Jersey. But his world is rocked when his best friend and mentor, Benchley Carrolton, suffers a stroke--and is swiftly carried off to Elston Manor, the most exclusive nursing home in town. Normally, Kit would feel his friend was in good hands. But Elston Manor's reputation has taken a macabre turn of late....

Kit will stop at nothing to get Benchley out of harm's way. But as he draws closer to finding out the truth behind Elston's sinister bedside manner, the powerful politician who owns the home starts pressuring Kit to back off--or else. Kit knows he has to act fast before more patients die--even if it means using unconventional investigative tactics that could land him in jail...or even in an early grave.

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Praise for Jon Katz's Suburban Detective:

The Fathers' Club:

"Mr. Katz's locals are as real as the commuters on the 6:27 out of Upper Montclair...he is wise and witty and honestly touching."
--Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

The Last Housewife:

"His most able, most telling dissection of life at commuter's end...Deft, humorous and suspenseful."
--New York Daily News

The Family Stalker:

"[S]tartling confirmation of how deep into the suburbs the mean streets reach. Especially recommended for anybody considering moving out of the city."
--Kirkus Reviews

Death by Station Wagon:

"[An] exhilarating mystery, with its utterly believable, uniquely modern hero."
--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Formerly executive producer of the "CBS Morning News," as well as media critic for Rolling Stone and New York magazine, Jon Katz is now media critic at Wired. He writes regularly for other national magazines and has twice been a finalist for the National Magazine Award. The author of the novel Sign-Off as well as four earlier Suburban Detective mysteries and Virtuous Reality, a critical look at the new media, Katz lives in northern New Jersey with his wife, daughter, and two yellow Labs. He can be reached at jonkatz@bellatlantic.net.

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