Plot
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
Cast
as Vera Stanhope
as Kenny Lockhart
as Mark Edwards
as Joe Ashworth
as Paula Bennett
as Steph Duncan
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
May 1, 2011
Last Aired Date
January 2, 2025
Production Companies
ITV Studios
Type
Scripted
Number of Season
14
Number of Episodes
56
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Reviews
This series would have been a lot more likeable were it not for a thread of, at times, waspish, establishment political correctness. Dear old working class bobby Vera isn't quite what she seems. In spite of her salt of the earth pretensions, she's a vehicle for some often pretty blatant establishment rhetoric. In one instance she scolds two hard up young boys for illegally sub letting thei…