Graham Garrity

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I was the kid at school who never paid attention. In English my grades were always D or E and I once received a report from a Geography teacher that said, 'This lad does well to find his way home.'

I left school with few qualifications and began work in a local factory as a maintenance engineer. After ten years of building and repairing machines I applied to join the police. One of my better decisions. I spent several years as a detective and worked on numerous burglary, robbery and murder investigations. I retired in 2011.

I began writing some years ago when I realised that everything I said to my children went in one ear and straight out the other. When I wrote them stories at least they paid attention.

My first novel, The Sound Catcher, a c
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