Vera: Blood and Bone

The unorthodox but brilliant North East detective investigates when charred human remains are found in an abattoir furnace, and attempts to deduce how and why they got there in the first place. The bones are identified as belonging to a fellow cop, leading Vera to uncover a web of dark secrets as she looks into her dead colleague's fraud squad. Brenda Blethyn dons her familiar hat and mac to play Vera in this mystery, based on the characters created by Ann Cleeves