The Moth Catcher (Vera Stanhope)

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Vera's Brenda Blethyn confirms details of 'special' episode after filming before Christmas". ChronicleLive. 11 January 2023 . Retrieved 31 March 2023. For the National Year of Reading, Ann was made reader-in-residence for three library authorities. It came as a revelation that it was possible to get paid for talking to readers about books! She went on to set up reading groups in prisons as part of the Inside Books project, became Cheltenham Literature Festival's first reader-in-residence and still enjoys working with libraries.

To date, The Glass Room, where one of Vera’s neighbours vanishes mysteriously, is only one of two novels that have not yet been adapted for the TV series. Harbour StreetThe only good thing about me waiting so long to experience my first immersive indulgence in this Ann Cleeves novel is that I know there are others I can read now that I'm thoroughly hooked. I certainly can't say this series has never been brought to my attention, but I finally made time and read one. What a satisfying time I spent getting to know Vera Stanhope and her investigative team. Weekly Top 30 Programmes: ITV w/e 8 May 2011". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012 . Retrieved 2 July 2011. In the third novel, Vera is called to investigate the deaths of two young people, who were murdered in the same way - placed in water and surrounded by flowers - before a third murder is committed. Watch this one in Vera’s TV debut in series one, episode one. Silent Voices

Vera is a British crime drama series based on the Vera Stanhope series of novels by Ann Cleeves. First broadcast on ITV on 1 May 2011, it stars Brenda Blethyn as the principal character, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope.We're so pleased to hear you're a fan of Louise Penny. She certainly has loyal followers and is such a lovely person who really appreciates her readers. We're very proud of her here in Canada! On the last day of that month, the River Tyne at North Shields was all go with a number of boats seen on the water indicating a possible search. When the dead body of the young ecologist is found in a ditch by a country lane, DI Vera Stanhope is called to the scene. When she and her sergeant Joe Ashworth go to the victim's flat to search for clues, Vera stumbles upon a second body. It is that of the former teacher. What could possibly have led to the murder of these two mild-mannered, inoffensive men? Could it have anything to do with their mutual interest in moths? Following Vera's footsteps across the North East also takes us to the Northumberland coast, including Craster, Seahouses and Rumbling Kern. Weekly Top 10 Programmes: ITV+1 w/e 29 April 2012". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 8 May 2012.

Vera investigates the death of a local lad whose body is found wrapped in plastic sheets at a rural teenage hangout.Joe's daughter is a witness to the death of a pensioner, seemingly stabbed, on a rush hour train she and her father were travelling on. Her seemingly quiet life turns out to be anything but as Vera's investigation begins to unravel a tangled web of lies and deceit. An old friend of Vera's father appears to hold the key to the entire mystery, which involves unraveling a murder committed thirty years previously, a rape, and an affair which nobody suspected would be likely to have taken place. Vera realises that the answer may lie in events which have started to repeat themselves. Vera must uncover a life of secrets and lies when Owen Thorne, a well-loved family man, plummets to his death from a multi-storey car park.