In Series 9 of the award-winning series VERA, DCI Vera Stanhope will be confronted with four more tragic and intriguing murder cases. In Blind Spot Vera follows the trail of a murdered trainee forensic psychologist. In Cuckoo a teenage boy is found murdered far away from his home in a coastal town. In Cold River the life of a woman found dead in the River Tyne presents a complex mystery. In The Seagull Vera opens up a cold case when a skeleton is discovered buried in Whitley Bay.