Vera fans will want to cancel all plans for Sunday, February 19 as Ann Cleeves has broken news of a 'stormy' series finale for the ITV drama.
Vera has now been pulling in millions of viewers for over a decade and it's in no small part to North East based author Anne, whose DCI Stanhope books are the inspiration for the show that Sunday nights just wouldn't be the same without.
Fans have to wait nearly a year for new Vera episodes, after series 11 was unexpectedly cut off in its prime in early 2022. Their patience was rewarded last month when Brenda Blethyn returned in the guise of her no nonsense detective alter ego for the last two parts of series 11 - Vital Signs and The Way the Wind Blows.
