8pm Friday VERA Crime Drama
DCI Vera Stanhope and her team face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, is a nearly retired employee of the 'Northumberland & City Police', who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. She plods along in a constantly disheveled state, but has a calculating mind and, despite her irascible personality, she cares deeply about her work and colleagues.
PARENT NOT EXPECTED – DCI Vera Stanhope must unravel a tangled web of deceit between two wildly different families, when the body of a teenage boy is discovered floating near a Northumberland salmon farm.
The body of 19-year-old apprentice electrician Dennis Bayliss is discovered, washed up on the shore of a North Northumberland rural estate. DCI Vera Stanhope is called to investigate and soon encounters the Walken family, who run a booming salmon farm off the coast of their land. Dennis turns out to be the estranged son of Steph and Rob Bayliss who are left crippled by his death, having lost him once already when he abandoned them to seek out his biological father; Thomas Walken!
Vera discovers tensions and fallouts have been a feature of Dennis’ life since a DNA home-test kit – a gift from his now ex-girlfriend, Phoebe – revealed the secret about his paternity, dropping a genealogical bombshell between the two families.
