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Julie McLaren has three grown-up children and seven grandchildren. She retired recently after a prolonged period of semi-retirement. She worked as an advisory teacher for children in care for many years, and found this work very rewarding, but now the time has come to commit fully to her first love: writing. She published her first novel, 'The Music of the Spheres' in July 2013 and has since published seven others.

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He moves the curtain to one side. He frowns at his twisted, gnarled knuckles. What's happening today? Nothing, if recent days are anything to go by. He remembers those heady times, forty years ago, when he was laid off for a couple of weeks. Three young women killed within days. Police cars everywhere. They interviewed him, several times. Oh yes, he was very helpful, explaining he’d seen the man at number 34 creeping around. His evidence was crucial. Well, he could hardly tell them the truth, could he? It's not his fault he goes a bit mad when he's bored.

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