Looking back to part one - last year's start of series 11 - local viewers spotted a familiar landmark, restaurant and a cafe. She refused medical attention and later told her distant relatives Juliet and Harriet that it “twinges a bit” but that was all. Back on Tyneside, a local resident also took a few photos as they spotted what they thought was a 'very intense' scene being filmed at a Wallsend cafe, before production vans were also seen near Hard Rock Cafe and Riverside on the Quayside. A teaser for the episode shares: “On the night of a massive storm, trying to get home, DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) comes across an abandoned car with a baby inside.

Her specialist areas including literature, the British Royal Family and knowing all there is to know about the latest TV shows on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and every streaming service out there. There’s currently no release date for The Rising Tide adaptation but all episodes of Vera seasons 1-12 are available to watch via ITVX. Select episodes are available on the ITV Hub, while seasons 1-9 are available on BritBox – you can sign up for a 7-day free BritBox trial here.And 2016’s locations included the quadrangle of Northumbria University where a mocked-up sign read “University of Northumberland sports complex”, which caused some momentary confusion for students before they caught sight of the crew and cameras. With no cell signal and blocked roads at every turn, Vera is forced to seek refuge somewhere she'd rather not be. She explained that after wrapping up each season of the show, she always says: “I really don’t think I can do this anymore. Afraid they will freeze, Vera takes the child and drives on, arriving at Brockburn, a run-down stately home she immediately recognizes as the house her father Hector grew up in. This fair-play mystery brims with fully developed suspects and motives that are hidden in plain sight.

Things start to look even worse and take a far sinister turn when a body is found on the track leading to Brockburn House. Over the first years of filming, Blethyn came to really know Northumberland, where the bulk of the action is set, and it's this on-screen portrayal of that beautiful countryside which first sent its visitor numbers rocketing. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. Refusing to accept responsibility for killing her, Nial maintained that Ronnie Browne had caused Lorna’s death.

Holy Island causeway also featured and she said: "I love it when they are able to include that as part of the story.

which investigates Josie’s life as she reconciles what happened to her as a teen and seeks a new path. After series 11 aired its first two episodes in summer 2021, before being pulled from schedules, Vera was back on screen at the start of last year with two more episodes, before 'going missing' again, as it was replaced by The Good Karma Hospital and Trigger Point, despite there being two parts remaining.

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! Having lured him away from Thomas who he'd taken to his and Lorna's "special place", she confronted Nial with what she knew and put the pieces together as he pointed a shotgun at her. Driving home during a blizzard, Vera Stanhope finds an car abandoned in the road, a toddler in the back seat. A murder investigation hits close to home for an experienced police officer in the north of England.