Vera

Vera's reunion with her first-ever sergeant, Stuart Macken, occurs under tragic circumstances when his house is petrol-bombed. Stuart is badly burned by the attack and his 18-year-old daughter Stella is left fighting for her life in intensive care. Vera is shocked to see that Stuart is a shadow of the man she knew 20 years before and, when her investigation uncovers unpleasant revelations about his personal life, she is faced with some long-buried memories of her own.

Vera investigates the case of a murdered social worked named Jenny Lister, who was universally considered to have been principled and popular. However, in an overworked and understaffed social work system, a notorious case involving the death of a child seems to hold the key to solving the killing. As Vera pursues the truth, she discovers the real secret at the heart of Jenny's death - and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep it hidden

DCI Vera Stanhope and DS Joe Ashworth investigate a suspicious death in an army barracks. Although the scene has been made to look like a suicide, Vera quickly establishes that Staff Sgt 'Dev' Deverson was murdered. Sensing a connection to a soldier named Ollie who was killed in Afghanistan, Vera interviews Dev's loyal comrades and Ollie's grieving family, exposing a deeply concealed trauma at the heart of the crime.

Last in series. DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the murder of 29-year-old Niall Coulter. With those closest to Niall intent upon obscuring the truth, it is not until the body of a drug dealer is found washed up on a Northumberland beach that the dreadful truth begins to emerge about Niall's past. While coping with revelations from her own past, Vera sifts through evidence of the grief, love and addiction that characterised Niall's life and deduces that his murderer acted through selfless and unrequited love.

DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the brutal murder of a young physiotherapist gunned down at a luxury country retreat.

DCI Vera Stanhope and her team must race against time to track down the killer of a respected surgeon and save his abducted teenage daughters.

DCI Vera Stanhope delves into the tangled past of extreme sports fanatic, Gideon Frane, when he plunges from a Northumberland cliff top in a ball of flames.

Vera and her team investigate the fatal stabbing of an ex-Met police officer outside a busy Newcastle nightclub.

Investigating a mysterious death, DCI Vera Stanhope finds herself in a quiet coastal town with clues that keep revolving around one street.

Vera unearths a 30-year-old mystery when the son of a prominent local family is found brutally murdered on the sands of a seaside resort.

When a suspected poacher is found dead from a gunshot wound, Vera must unearth the real truth behind his return to the Northumberland moors.

DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the mysterious death of a businessman found floating in the water under the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.

Vera takes a look into a suspicious fire that rips through a holiday park on the Northumberland coast. Three cabins are destroyed and the body of a woman is discovered inside inside one of them.

Following the discovery of the remains of a teenage girl half-buried in a Northumberland wood, Vera and her team end up looking into a thirty-year old mystery.

Vera investigates the death of an unidentified man dredged up from a slurry pit on a remote Northumberland farm.

A dock worker plunges from the roof of a multistory car park whilst picking up daughter from her school prom and everything points to foul play.

The body of a woman is found on the bleak Northumberland moors.

The detective investigates the discovery of a young man's body in an area notorious for illicit teenage gatherings, the corpse wrapped in plastic sheeting and having received a blow to the head.

DCI Stanhope and her team, including new recruit DC Hicham Cherradi, travel to a remote country house when the woman looking after it is killed.

A fisherman's body is found tangled up in a North Sea trawler's net. Vera and her team investigate with the help of the local harbourmaster

CI Vera Stanhope is drawn into a suspicious death on Ternstone, a remote and inaccessible island off the coast of Northumberland, home only to numerous species of birds and the rangers who observe them. The last thing anyone expected to see was a body, cruelly washed up on the shore.

Die Leiche eines jungen Mannes wird mit dem Gesicht nach unten in einem Fluss in der Nähe von Thrunton Woods entdeckt. Er wurde erschlagen. Aber da bei der Leiche keinerlei Hinweise auf die Identität gefunden werden können, werden die Ermittlungsarbeiten von DCI Vera Stanhope und ihrem Team erschwert. Vera sieht sich gezwungen, mit den wenigen Hinweisen, die sie hat, aktiv zu werden: einem Trauring, den der junge Mann an einer Halskette trägt, Einstichspuren von Spritzen an seinem Körper und ein Drogentütchen mit einem Stempel darauf: „Schwarzer Engel“. Die Spur des Stempels führt Vera nach Gateshead und direkt in das kriminelle Milieu von Newcastle, wo sie herausfindet, dass das Opfer, Nathan, diverse, mysteriöse Kontakte hatte. Im Zuge der Ermittlungen kommt es jedoch zu einem unerwarteten Wendepunkt, als eine Zeugenbeobachtung DCI Vera Stanhope und DS Aiden Healy zum Tatort eines älteren Verbrechens führt: eine abgelegene Farm, auf der 13 Jahre zuvor ein brutaler Mord begangen wurde. DC Kenny Lockhart kann sich noch gut an den Fall erinnern: Er hat dabei mitgeholfen, den Täter Eddie Thurston hinter Gitter zu bringen. Könnte eine Verbindung zwischen dem Mord an Nathan und dem vergangenen Verbrechen bestehen? Die Ermittlungen spitzen sich zu, als DCI Vera Stanhope Ungereimtheiten entdeckt, welche ein neues Licht sowohl auf die Vergangenheit als auch auf die Gegenwart werfen.

DCI Vera Stanhope wird an die Universität von Northumberland gerufen, nachdem Jamie Marshall, ein junger Student, vom obersten Stockwerk eines baufälligen Fakultätsgebäudes zu Tode gestürzt ist. Da es keine Augenzeugen gibt und keine augenscheinlichen Spuren, wendet Vera sich an seine Familie und Freunde, um jegliche Informationen über Jamie zusammenzutragen. Hat ihm jemand den Tod gewünscht? Während Veras Ermittlungen werden Jamies akademische Existenz sowie sein Privatleben durchleuchtet. Dabei stellt sich heraus, dass der Schein trügt. Seine besonnene Persönlichkeit steht im Widerspruch zu Internetblogs, die Jamie in einem völlig anderen Licht erscheinen lassen, denn dort machte er all seinem Groll und seinem Frust Luft. Doch wogegen genau lief Jamie Sturm? Da er öfter für eine Lokalzeitung Artikel verfasste, könnte sich der clevere Journalismus-Student möglicherweise Feinde gemacht haben, die ihn zum Schweigen bringen wollten. Weil sich DCI Vera Stanhope an allen Fronten mit Verschleierungsversuchen konfrontiert sieht, muss sie dieses verzwickte Beziehungswirrwarr in Jamies Leben entwirren, bevor eine unerwartete Folge von Ereignissen zu verheerenden Konsequenzen führt.

When the body of a missing teenager is discovered buried on the moors, Vera is forced to delve into the life and the secrets of the victim.

DCI Vera Stanhope is called to a chilling murder scene when the charred remains of a body are discovered in an abattoir incinerator. With limited forensic evidence, she is disturbed to identify the body as DC Harry Fenton, a respected police officer from the Northumberland & City Fraud Unit.

When a seemingly beloved resident of a coastal community is fatally driven off the road, DCI Vera digs up the victim's past in the hope of unmasking the killer.

Quiet life in suburbia takes a dark turn when a woman is is discovered murdered, found lying dead in her back garden. When DCI Vera Stanhope discovers that the neighbours aren’t all that they seem, buried secrets must be unearthed in order to catch the killer.

Vera is confronted with a tragic mystery when the dead body of teenager Ethan Dewley is found floating in a reservoir in a remote rural town, DCI Vera Stanhope must scrutinise the fractured relationships of the surrounding community to find his killer.

DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the murder of a trainee forensic psychologist found dead on a Northumberland landfill site.

Vera is confronted with the tragic scene of a teenage boy's murder. His body is found in a shipyard in the sleepy coastal town of Peyton-by-the-Sea. As he isn't recognised locally, it's not immediately apparent who he is. Eventually, Missing Persons records reveal that troubled Caden Lennon had absconded from the care of his support worker six weeks previously. With few leads thrown up by the Newcastle estate where Caden came from, Vera looks to the Peyton locals to throw some light on the investigation. Beneath the quaint facade she discovers that there is a growing drugs problem. But, with local dealer Tony Briggs now apparently going straight, it's not clear why. Vera begins to question whether Caden's connections to Newcastle and Peyton run deeper, and whether the lack of leads points to a ring of silence with darker forces at play. Vera must uncover the missing link to find Caden's ruthless killer.Vera is confronted with the tragic scene of a teenage boy's murder. His body is found in a shipyard in the sleepy coastal town of Peyton-by-the-Sea. As he isn't recognised locally, it's not immediately apparent who he is. Eventually, Missing Persons records reveal that troubled Caden Lennon had absconded from the care of his support worker six weeks previously. With few leads thrown up by the Newcastle estate where Caden came from, Vera looks to the Peyton locals to throw some light on the investigation. Beneath the quaint facade she discovers that there is a growing drugs problem. But, with local dealer Tony Briggs now apparently going straight, it's not clear why. Vera begins to question whether Caden's connections to Newcastle and Peyton run deeper, and whether the lack of leads points to a ring of silence with darker forces at play. Vera must uncover the missing link to find Caden's ruthless killer.

Successful business-woman Lisa Varsey throws a lavish boat party for her family and friends on the River Tyne. But it goes horribly wrong when her sister Dani is found dead in the water. Lisa has an empire of beauty salons in Newcastle and a caring family in husband, Ross, and sister Sadie. At first the family believe that Dani’s death was an accident but DCI Vera Stanhope and pathologist Malcolm Donahue (Paul Kaye) know that the forensics point to murder. Vera and the team alight on concerning rumours that Dani could have been in an abusive relationship and questions whether this could have led to her death. But, the investigation takes a turn when evidence points to the fact that something was rotten in another area of Dani’s life. Vera begins to believe that Dani was going to expose an unpalatable truth. Vera must unpick the tightly-woven threads that hold the family together to discover who killed an innocent woman.

DCI Stanhope must open up a familiar cold case to find the connection with a present-day murder.