When two women who share a birthday meet, a journalist becomes the subject of her own true-crime mystery. 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. When she’s not writing about the next unmissable show to add to your to-watch list or delving into royal protocol, you can find Emma cooking and watching yet more crime dramas.

From Ann Cleeves - New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows - comes the stunning new Vera Stanhope novel, The Darkest Evening. Looking back to part one - last year's start of series 11 - local viewers spotted a familiar landmark, restaurant and a cafe. Cleeves is currently in the middle of writing the 11th book of the Vera Stanhope series, so there's no denying that there's a vast amount of source material for the ITV drama. Over the past year, the Vera cast and crew have been spotted on location at a variety of different places all over the region. If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added.While there aren't any official plot details yet, we'd expect season 13 to follow the same format as previous seasons and continue as a crime procedural, with Vera investigating new cases each episode.

It was also revealed that Holly had found Thomas and rescued him, rather than him being with Nial Heslop’s children like in the ITV drama.When Nial was also revealed as Lorna’s murderer, Josh attacked his father and wrestled the gun from him. The tense, final episode was framed around a massive storm – and with no mobile signal and blocked roads at every turn, Vera was forced to seek refuge somewhere she’d rather not be: Brockburn House, the Stanhope’s ancestral pile. With the story unfinished, the narrative unfolds in the present tense, with prose that jingles like song lyrics: “He turns to see if the girl is behind him, and sees her wishy-washy, wavy-wavy, in double vision through the glass windows of the hotel.

I also like working in the vibrant city of Newcastle which was the main venue for Sally Abbot’s “For The Grace of God”. Speaking previously to ITV about what viewers could expect from the 12th season, Blethyn revealed: “The six new films also include an adaptation of Ann’s previous book, The Darkest Evening, which marks the 50th episode of Vera.Ultimately, Aidan told him that in his opinion all of the Heslops and Thomas were “better off” without Nial in their lives.

in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. The actor played the role of DS Joe Ashworth in the first four seasons of the crime drama between 2011 and 2014, and will once again star alongside Brenda Blethyn, who is reprising her role as the titular character. Almost as it was confirmed that production had started on series 12, eagle eyed fans spotted filming taking place at Amble at outside of Morpeth larder. Lorna had grown stronger, wanted independence and didn’t need Nial anymore - something he wouldn’t tolerate as he claimed they’d made “plans'' together and he’d intended to leave his wife. Ann Cleeves has even written a murder mystery script based on The Darkest Evening, which has been filmed, with four actors reading the parts, turning St Aidan's church Thorneyburn into a grand house.

With no cell signal and blocked roads at every turn, Vera is forced to seek refuge somewhere she'd rather not be.