Brenda Blethyn is back as DCI Vera Stanhope this weekend and ITV has released a trailer for the new season of Vera.

Based on the bestselling Inspector Stanhope books by award-winning writer Ann Cleeves, the crime drama returns to ITV at 8pm on Sunday 19 March with the first of four new stand-alone films.

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

Watch the Season 7 trailer…

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.

“Gemma Wyatt, 28, was an experienced ranger who lived and worked on Ternstone for the Northumbria Wildlife Trust. While her devastated fiancé, Ryan (Matthew Wilson), and colleagues, led by Head Ranger Sophia (Suzanne Packer), believe Gemma’s death was an accident, marks found on her body quickly prove otherwise. But as Gemma was left alone on the island overnight, the question remains, who could have made the treacherous journey out to sea and up the island’s impenetrable coastline to kill her, and why?”

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

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