Anyway in this latest Vera, it is a week or so before Christmas. Vera is driving home, in the dark, it's snowing. She takes a wrong turn and comes across a car off the road, the door open, and a baby in his baby seat. Not a soul around. She does realise where she is - on the edge of the landed estate to which she is actually quite closely connected through her father. But where she is not particularly welcome. Then a few hours later, the body of young woman turns up on the estate. and Vera is plunged immediately into sorting all this out.
Classic Vera with conflicts overload, relationships galore with long and deeply complicated histories, jealousies, resentments, possible motives. Joe, Vera's long suffering detective sergeant, and Hollie, her detective constable are back, both showing great promise as Vera successors.
This is only the second Vera I have read, the first Vera being the very first of the books. There was a lot in the first one about Vera herself, her personality, what made her tick, and I remember she is much more abrasive, prickly and difficult in that first one. She has softened somewhat in this latest, more like the character Brenda Blethyn has created. Unless maybe we all love Vera in whatever guise she chooses to show herself.
It's terrific, it will be a tele series one day. Look forward to it.
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