SEASON 1
- SEASON 1
- SEASON 2
- SEASON 3
- SEASON 4
- SEASON 5
- SEASON 6
- SEASON 7
- SEASON 8
- SEASON 9
Summary of Season 1 (2011) - 4 discs
Based on the books by Ann Cleeves, this detective series follows investigator Vera Stanhope as she solves crimes in Northumberland. Hard-drinking and fashion-challenged, Vera uses her unconventional manner to her advantage.
Summary of Season 2 (2012) - 4 discs
Vera Stanhope returns as police detective with a disheveled exterior, a sharp tongue, and an uncanny ability to solve crimes. Tough, dedicated, and more than a little irreverent, DCI Stanhope is assisted by her long-suffering sergeant, Joe Ashworth.
Summary of Season 3 (2013) - 4 discs
Two-time Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement) plays Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope in this compelling mystery series inspired by Ann Cleeves's bestselling novels. Patrolling her patch of northeast England, Vera resolutely pursues the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail.
Summary of Season 4 (2014) - 4 discs
Based on the award-winning novels by Ann Cleeves, Vera stars two-time Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn (Pride & Prejudice, Secrets & Lies) as a cantankerous but brilliant detective who solves unthinkable crimes in northeast England.
Summary of Season 5 (2015) - 4 discs
From the streets of Newcastle to remote rural Northumberland, Stanhope tackles cases as diverse and wild as their settings. As rumpled and caustic as ever, DCI Stanhope contends with a new assistant in Set 5. If their partnership is to work, Healy will quickly have to get accustomed to the sometimes unconventional methods his boss employs to unearth the truth, crack a case, and catch a killer.
Summary of Season 6 (2016) - 4 discs
DCI Vera Stanhope and her sergeant, DS Aiden Healey, investigate the deaths of a grandmother found on the desolate Northumberland moors, a young man who worked at a traveling fairground, a fisherman found tangled in the nets of a North Sea trawler, and the mysterious double murder of a moth enthusiast and a 22-year-old victim of a hit-and-run.
Summary of Season 7 (2017) - 4 discs
This season finds Detective Chief Inspector Stanhope facing one of her most mystifying cases when an unidentified man's corpse is found in a river, leaving her precious few leads to begin her investigation.
Summary of Season 8 (2018) - 2 discs
This season begins with a bang for Vera and her police colleagues when the charred remains of one of their own, a member of the fraud unit, are found in a slaughterhouse furnace. Later, a teenager's corpse is discovered in a reservoir.
Summary of Season 9 (2019)
As disheveled and indomitable as ever, DCI Vera Stanhope leads her tightly knit team of Northumberland police through four more daunting cases. No one seems to know anything about the police officer whose body turns up in a slaughterhouse incinerator, the woman killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident, the suburban neighbor found dead in her back garden, and the teenager whose body floats to the surface of a reservoir. How will Vera break the silence to find their killers?
