{"id":1185,"date":"2025-11-19T03:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/?page_id=1185"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:36:06","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/about-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/iUniverse\/867975\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1835\" style=\"width:409px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">On Halloween night in 1975, fifteen-year-old Josie Anne Wills never came home. Her murder in the wealthy enclave of Cheviot Hills, Connecticut, shattered a family, divided a community, and sparked decades of suspicion. For nearly fifty years, rumors swirled around the powerful Mook family next door, where secrets, lies, and alibis blurred the line between truth and cover-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Told through the lens of a journalist drawn deep into the case, <strong><em>Julia\u2019s Angels<\/em><\/strong> retraces the night that changed everything\u2014through trials and overturned convictions, whispered confessions, and families unwilling to let go. Part crime saga, part meditation on memory and justice, this gripping novel asks whether the truth can ever survive half a century of silence, influence, and betrayal. 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Her murder in the wealthy enclave of Cheviot Hills, Connecticut, shattered a family, divided a community, and sparked decades of suspicion. 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