Brenda Blethyn returns as the sharp-tongued ’tec
It’s time for DCI Vera Stanhope to pull on her dowdy mac and hat and hop in the Land Rover as she and colleagues DS Aiden Healy (Kenny Doughty) and DC Kenny Lockhart (Jon Morrison) return for a ninth series and a new batch of murders.
Things get off to a bleak start when the body of a young woman is found dumped in a landfill site. Former Doctor
Who star Peter Davison plays the victim’s colleague, and Adrian Lukis stars as her father, who is feeling the strain of a very tangled personal life.
Game of Thrones actor Paul Kaye joins the cast as new pathologist Dr Malcolm Donohue, who rubs Vera up the wrong way!