Kenny Doughty

Against the stunning backdrop of rural Northumberland, Vera and her assistant, Detective Sergeant Aiden Healy, strive to solve vicious crimes that menace their community. This season finds Vera and Aiden investigating several mysterious deaths, including a park ranger found washed up on the shores of a remote wildlife reserve, a drug addict, a promising young journalism student, and a woman who had disappeared six weeks earlier.

As disheveled and indomitable as ever, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her tightly knit team of Northumberland police through four more daunting cases. No one seems to know anything about the police officer whose body turns up in a slaughterhouse incinerator, the woman killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident, the suburban neighbor found dead in her back garden, and the teenager whose body floats to the surface of a reservoir. How will Vera break...

Includes four all-new, feature-length mysteries. From the death of a woman found on the Northumberland cliffs to the body of a fisherman pulled out of the sea, these cases prove to be some of the most difficult and emotional in Vera's career.