Vera will return to ITV later this month.

Based on the bestselling Inspector Stanhope books by award-winning writer Ann Cleeves, the crime drama is back with four new stand-alone films.

Set around Newcastle and the stunning Northumberland countryside, the new season sees DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) and her team take on more compelling mysteries, including the death of a wildlife ranger, left alone overnight on a remote and inaccessible island.

Season 7 begins at 8pm on Sunday 19 March on ITV.

In the opening episode, ‘Natural Selection’, Vera is drawn into a suspicious death on Ternstone, a remote and inaccessible island off the coast of Northumberland, home only to numerous species of birds and the rangers who observe them. The last thing anyone expected to see was a body, cruelly washed up on the shore.

Brenda Blethyn is joined again by Kenny Doughty, Jon Morrison, Noof McEwan, Christopher Colquhoun, Lisa Hammond and Riley Jones.

Buy the complete Season 1-4 boxset on Amazon here.

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