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Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she’s lonely she doesn’t show it and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage. Her trusted and long suffering colleague is Sergeant Joe Ashworth (David Leon); her right hand man and surrogate son. Together they approach every new case with unparalleled gusto and professionalism.

First Episode - Hidden Depths

The first episode is set in a contemporary Northumberland close-knit community this engrossing murder mystery centres around the discovery of two beautiful young corpses found floating in water, garlanded with wild flowers.

Vera and Joe are called to the stylised murder scene and as they start to interview the friends and relatives of the victims, sinister secrets are slowly unearthed.

Episode Two - Telling Tales

Set around the Northumberland coast, the second film follows DI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) as she sets out to retrospectively resolve the mystery of Abigail Mantel’s (Amber Britton-Dyer) murder.

It’s only after Jeanie Long’s (Sarah Preston) suicide hits the headlines that new evidence comes to light exonerating her for the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail. Throughout her eleven year sentence, Jeanie pleaded her innocence with Probation Officer, Robert Winter (Gary Lewis), but no one, including her own father, Michael (Alan Williams), believed her. Abigail was found strangled in the countryside near her home and was the teenage daughter of Jeanie’s boyfriend, Keith Mantel (Hugo Speer).

Vera uses her skill and instinct to expose the lies and half-truths at the heart of a small community, while setting the ghosts of Abigail and Jeanie to rest.

Episode 3 - The Crow Trap

The third instalment of ITV’s crime drama VERA starring Brenda Blethyn is based on the novel, The Crow Trap, by crime writer Ann Cleeves and will guest star John Lynch (Mo, The Passion) Daniela Nardini (This Life, Big Women, Reckless) and Elizabeth Carling (The Damned United, Casualty).

When the murder of Bella Furness (Jane Holman) is discovered by environmentalist Anne Preece (Daniela Nardini) at the isolated Baikie's Cottage, DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) is brought back to a place full of bittersweet childhood memories and is reminded of an unsolved case from her earlier career which still haunts her.

Delving into the local politics surrounding Godfrey Waugh’s (Daniel Flynn) controversial proposal to dig a quarry, Vera soon discovers that the home of Bella and her housebound husband, Dougie (Jack McBride), holds the right of way to the site, a key motive for the killer.

Bella also had an ally in her strong opposition to the quarry in the shape of Edmund Fulwell (John Lynch), an ex landowner now reduced to living an isolated existence in a shack in the woods.

When Anne recalls seeing a woman moments before Bella’s death, who matches the description of Bev MacDonald (Elizabeth Carling), Vera is forced to face the past and the unexplained mystery that surrounds the disappearance of Bev’s son.

Episode 4 - Little Lazarus

Kerry Fox (The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, Trial & Retribution, Whistleblowers) and Kieran O’Brien (Survivors, Life on Mars, Cracker) join International award winning actress Brenda Blethyn OBE, for the fourth episode of ITV’s gripping new crime series VERA.

The episode entitled, Little Lazarus, follows DCI Vera Stanhope (Blethyn) and her team as they uncover the murder of Margaret Wilde (Laura Norton), whose body has been discovered in a hedgerow, moments after her death, by PC Edwards (Riley Jones).

Margaret’s eleven year old son, Adam (Sam Jarvis), escaped the violent attack, only to fall into the water of a freezing cold pond, where Vera finds him twenty minutes later. She wastes no time in taking matters into her own hands and wades into the water to pull him out. Against all the odds, Adam survives and becomes a vital witness to his mother’s murder.

ITV series Vera starring Brenda Blethyn

Police drama has DI Vera Stanhope investigating murder on the Northumberland coast

Starring Brenda Blethyn, David Leon, Wunmi Mosaku, Paul Ritter and Lolita Chakrabarti

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Photograph of Brenda Blethyn playing DI Vera Stanhope in ITV police series Vera