Gillian Cramer 's ex-husband, CID officer David Moore, asks her to put in a good word for him with Warwickshire police, who are carrying out an internal investigation into irregularities in his force. She uncovers disturbing information and asks Jonathan Paige for advice.

When a local woman falls to her death from a bedroom window, her distraught husband is convinced that there is a connection with the ghost of a woman who was murdered in the house many years before.