Vera

Brenda Blethyn introduces her character as DCI Vera Stanhope in Blood and Bone where she is called to a chilling murder scene when the charred remains of a body are discovered in an abattoir incinerator.

Brenda Blethyn's Vera is called to the scene of a violent car crash. Deploying her sharp skills of observation, the inspector quickly realizes that the crash was not an accident.

If it isn't Ann Clevees, the famed writer herself introducing the dark turn that was taken at a suburbia home where a woman is discovered dead in her garden.

DCI Stanphone is confronted with a tragic mystery when the dead body of a teenager is found floating in a reservoir in this episode introduced by Brenda Blethyn.