The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope)

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Then came the visit by Vera to Tanfield School in Stanley - which featured in episode one of series 10, along with Ridley Park and the Tan Hill Inn at Swaledale in North Yorkshire, which is the highest pub in Britain.

This time Blethyn and co-star Doughty were joined by hordes of extras for the August shoot at the ferry terminal. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.It was a different matter weather-wise by August which saw Blethyn and Doughty filming in some less than summery conditions on Tynemouth Beach, when huge umbrellas helped protect them from the elements in between takes. Vera season 11 continues on Sunday 15th January, with season 12 airing later this January 2023 on ITV. One slightly less glamorous location for the new series was the rubbish tip we see in the episode Blind Spot.

Vera's familiar Land Rover Defender was positioned next to a police cordon and officers wearing forensic suits. It was also revealed that Holly had found Thomas and rescued him, rather than him being with Nial Heslop’s children like in the ITV drama.When two women who share a birthday meet, a journalist becomes the subject of her own true-crime mystery. You may recognise some characters and the situation from the book - but don't worry, it's a different story, and there are no spoilers for the book (or the other way round!

On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills.Cleeves is currently in the middle of writing the 11th book of the Vera Stanhope series, so there's no denying that there's a vast amount of source material for the ITV drama. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. And inspired by the spirit of the season, Vera even ponders about being a kind of guardian in Thomas’ life, helping him out and visiting him occasionally and is told by the Falstones she'd be more than welcome to drop in and see Thomas in future. The sinister confrontation between Vera and Nial went down at night in the snow in December, adding extra intrigue and intensity to the book scenes. If you're a devoted fan of the show, you'll know that the final cases are set to be anything but straightforward and these final episodes are certainly not going to be an easy ride for her, with both of them likely to test her to her limit.