![]() In The Family Stalker (1994), Katz’s follow-up to Death by Station Wagon, Kit is called in when one woman suspects another of setting out to systematically destroy her family. Ken’s soccer-team comrades don’t accept the explanation and hire Kit to investigate. ![]() Death by Station Wagon (1993), the first in the series, centers around the deaths of two local high school students, Ken Dale and his girlfriend Carol Lombardi, in an apparent murder-suicide. Katz’s detective is Kit Deleeuw, a former Wall Street trader transplanted with his family to Montclair-like Rochambeau, New Jersey. Having moved from Manhattan to the middle-class, family-oriented community of Montclair, New Jersey, upon his “early retirement” from CBS, Katz found in his new environment the inspiration for a series of suburban-based detective mysteries. Katz’s fiction since Sign Off has been in the mystery genre. While the book naturally exploits Katz’s insider knowledge of the news media, its message about the human cost of a profit-driven society has broader relevance. While employed with CBS, he produced a documentary with Bill Moyers called "Big Gamble in Atlantic City." But he quit soon and began writing - in the following months, he wrote his first novel Sign Off. In 1983 he became an executive producer of the CBS Morning News. He wrote for a number of media institutions serving as a reporter and editor at the Boston Globe, The Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Dallas Times-Herald. Jon Katz began his career as a journalist. ![]()
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