Work has started in Northumberland on a new production of ITV's Vera.
Guest stars Hugo Speer, Gary Lewis and Lolita Chakrabarti join Brenda Blethyn in Telling Tales, the second of four self contained films.
Set around the Northumberland coast, the second film follows DI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) as she sets out to retrospectively resolve the mystery of Abigail Mantel’s murder.
Vera also stars Jon Morrison as DC Kenny, Elizabeth Edmunds as Mary Winter, Daniel Rose as Chris Winter, Emun Elliott as James Bennett and Kate Foster- Barnes as Emma Bennett.
The script, which is based on the book Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves, has been adapted for television by Paul Rutman who wrote the first Vera film and has also written for Marple and Lewis.