Joyce Barnaby is driving her daughter Cully home from a concert when she takes her eyes off the road to turn the radio down, noticing Cully is asleep. She looks up to see a figure in the road, she swerves to avoid it and crashes. The next morning Gerald Ebbs, a man whose only meaningful relationships are with dead people, is found dead in the old cemetery. His corpse appears to be kissing a grave. Did Joyce run him down or did someone kill him? This is a particularly dark episode, and is a lot better than the nonsense that was Blood on the Saddle. Its just so much more involving when characters and their situations are believable. The characters here are all very well developed. Peter J Hammond is a very experienced writer. It explores grief as a central theme, and does so very effectively, but is livened up by a charlatan ghost tour leader and other interesting locals.
My only complaint is the very low body count! A really good episode of Midsomer Murders is rare these days, so i was really pleased with this one. Peter J Hammond is the shows best writer.
But Peter... more bodies next time please.