Root Causes

An unexpected legacy enables Valerie McKellern to buy her first house; a newly built semi-detached on an estate that is still being developed in the Lancashire countryside.
Unfortunately it appears to be haunted.
That does not deter her best friend Leigh however for when Val suggests that they house share, she jumps at the chance - especially after an encounter with her pervy landlord.
A pair of private detectives who specialize in 'unusual investigations' are able to unearth the type of entity involved in the haunting and as work continues on the rest of the estate, body parts suddenly begin to turn up in one of the newly dug foundations.
Detective Chief Inspector Stone finds himself heading up a murder investigation that has its root causes in events on the North Island of New Zealand more than a hundred years ago at the turn of the twentieth century.