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Root Causes: Detective Inspector Stone Supernatural Crime
An unexpected legacy enables Valerie McKellern to buy her first a newly built semi-detached on an estate that is still being developed in the Lancashire countryside. Unfortunately for Val, it appears to be haunted. That does not deter her best friend Leigh however for when Val asks if she would consider a house share, Leigh jumps at the chance – especially after an encounter with her pervy landlord. After contacting Ratcliffe and Kat, a pair of private detectives who specialize in 'Unusual Investigations', they manage to discover the strange type of entity involved in the haunting. However, as work continues on the rest of the estate, suddenly body parts 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.
316 pages, Paperback
Published December 31, 2020
About the author
Barry Durham
30 books4 followersBarry Durham was born in Manchester in 1947. He was educated at North Manchester Grammar School and Salford Technical College where he studied Maths, Physics and Chemistry for a while before getting extremely bored with Applied Mathematics and dropping out.
After marrying his wife Barbara in 1968 the couple moved to the Preston area and Barry became a Junior Reporter on a small local newspaper called The Garstang Courier at the ripe old age of 23. The next 40-odd years saw him work for a number of publications in the Lancashire area. He has been a reporter, feature writer, sub-editor, Editor and Group Editor and more recently an Associate Lecturer at The University of Central Lancashire in Preston where he taught Newspaper and Magazine Design to post graduate level until budget cuts seem to have forced his final retirement. This has, however, given him the opportunity to write full time (apart from tending his garden, that is!)
He lives in the pretty village of Chipping in Lancashire with his wife of 40-something years, has two grown-up sons, a grown-up granddaughter and three young grandsons.
After marrying his wife Barbara in 1968 the couple moved to the Preston area and Barry became a Junior Reporter on a small local newspaper called The Garstang Courier at the ripe old age of 23. The next 40-odd years saw him work for a number of publications in the Lancashire area. He has been a reporter, feature writer, sub-editor, Editor and Group Editor and more recently an Associate Lecturer at The University of Central Lancashire in Preston where he taught Newspaper and Magazine Design to post graduate level until budget cuts seem to have forced his final retirement. This has, however, given him the opportunity to write full time (apart from tending his garden, that is!)
He lives in the pretty village of Chipping in Lancashire with his wife of 40-something years, has two grown-up sons, a grown-up granddaughter and three young grandsons.
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