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Returning: Vera

Brenda Blethyn returns in 4 new mysteries on ABC.

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Good news for Vera fans with Season 8 to screen from Sunday.

Brenda Blethyn returns in 4 new mysteries. These screened in the UK in January 2018.

In the first episode, DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) is called to a chilling murder scene when the charred remains of a body are discovered in an abattoir incinerator. With limited forensic evidence, she is disturbed to identify the body as DC Harry Fenton, a respected police officer from the Northumberland & City Fraud Unit.

A club man, Vera and Aiden (Kenny Doughty) meet Harry’s grieving family and friends in a tightly-knit fishing community who are shocked to learn of the devastating murder. Vera looks to Harry’s fraud team to try and find answers, but she begins to sense that all is not what it seems. One of Harry’s former colleagues continues to rub Vera up the wrong way by poking her nose into the investigation. Whereas DC Jac Williams (Ibinabo Jack) gives Vera a useful tip off. And then one of Harry’s old fraud cases begins to cross over into Vera’s enquiries.

Aided by DC Kenny Lockhart (Jon Morrison) and pathologist Dr Marcus Summer (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Vera discovers a web of secrets that lead her to Harry’s killer.

8:40pm Sunday on ABC.

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  1. This has been out on DVD for about a year (free from my public library). I’m waiting for the library to buy season 9. Why is this “news” item about season 8 so late?

    1. Because there’s a 12mo exclusive period for 13th Street (or whichever pay tv channel has it). It’s new s because Sunday is the FTA premiere of the series.

      Bit surprised this is on so soon after S7’s airing, because I’m sure the V/O guy said Vera would “return later in the year”. But I’m also a fan, so it’s all good.

      I guess now all we have to wait for is the latest series of Endeavour.

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