Brenda Blethyn, who has played DCI Vera Stanhope in the ITV drama since 2011, was forced to seek urgent medical attention.

Having won a BAFTA and been nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies in the mid-90s, Brenda ...

Vera star Brenda Blethyn has revealed why she decided to quit the hit British crime drama after nearly 15 years on air. First airing in 2011, the ITV series is based on the Vera Stanhope series of ...

Ann Cleeves has admitted that she rarely plans how she wants the plot to unfold when she is writing her Vera books and ...

Ann Cleeves lost her laptop during heavy snowstorms on Shetland Crime writer Ann Cleeves has said the laptop she lost during a heavy snowstorm in Shetland has been found. It contained the draft of ...

In Cleeves’s exquisitely plotted sixth Shetland mystery (after 2013’s Dead Water), bridesmaid Eleanor Longstaff disappears during a wedding ceremony on the island. When she turns up dead in a ...

“It was also important to keep the sense of place that Ann created in the books. I added the idea that the story and it's conclusion would be set during the run-up to the 'Up Helly Aa' festival ...

Ann Cleeves is set to discuss a Vera novel with BBC Radio 4's Bookclub as it records in Northumberland ahead of the Alnwick Story Fest. Each month, Bookclub focuses on one author and one book.

Each stand-alone case episode is based on or inspired by the bestselling novels by Ann Cleeves, guaranteeing the source material is sound. Her scruffy mac- and bucket hat-wearing Geordie detective ...