In "The Silent Land," Joyce and Cully are in the car late at night; Cully is asleep, when Joyce swerves to avoid someone in the road, and there's an accident. Both women are all right physically, but Joyce is positive that she hit someone in the road. When a man is found dead close to the road, she's sure she killed him.
The man is the village librarian everyone loved to hate, Gerald Ebbs, and he's found in a graveyard where he was the voluntary caretaker. These are very old graves of TB patients from an old sanitarium which is no longer used.
Ebbs was always fighting with Jeff Bowmaker, a sleaze who takes tourists on "ghost walks" through the cemetery, when he's not sleeping with either his landlady, Alice Carver, or Faith Kent, a historian.
Another one who couldn't stand him is Ian Kent (Aden Gillett), Faith's husband.
A nervous Joyce, who is still wondering what she saw, goes on the ghost walk; it is then that there is another murder. Barnaby soon thinks he has the solution to Joyce's late-night encounter.
I liked this episode. One reason is that I went on several ghost walks in Savannah, and they were really fun.
"The Silent Land" is on the spooky side, so it's very atmospheric, and I always enjoy the family involvement of the Barnabys.
The ending is an eye-opener for Barnaby.