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.

Paige is giving evidence in court against a man who is on trial for murder. When the accused suddenly realises that Paige is his former GP, what looks like a cut-and-dried case becomes more complex.

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.