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Vera investigates the murder of a 56-year-old grandmother discovered by a young girl on the wild and desolate Northumberland moors.
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The Seagull: DCI Vera Stanhope must find the connection between a skeleton discovered underneath the site of a notorious burnt-out nightclub and a present day murder.
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Blind Spot: DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the murder of a trainee forensic psychologist found dead on a Northumberland landfill site.
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| Brenda Blethyn | ... | DCI Vera Stanhope / ... 36 episodes, 2011-2019 | |
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Jon Morrison | ... | DC Kenny Lockhart 35 episodes, 2011-2019 |
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Riley Jones | ... | DC Mark Edwards / ... 24 episodes, 2011-2019 |
| Kenny Doughty | ... | DS Aiden Healy 20 episodes, 2015-2019 | |
| David Leon | ... | DS Joe Ashworth 16 episodes, 2011-2014 | |
| Kingsley Ben-Adir | ... | Dr. Marcus Summer 16 episodes, 2014-2018 | |
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The central character is Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. Who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she's lonely she doesn't show it and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage. Her trusted and long suffering colleague is Sergeant Joe Ashworth. Together they approach every new case with unparalleled gusto and professionalism. Written by Anonymous
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The third series attracted an average consolidated audience of 6.53 million over four episodes, whilst the fourth series attracted a slightly smaller audience of 6.42 million over four episodes. In 2018 the ratings increased to between 8 to 9 million viewers. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Inspector Morse's departure from our screens and lives left a gap that was not easy to fill, but Vera seems to have stepped right into his shoes. Brenda Blethyn is a talented actress who brings life to the well-written plots of this new TV crime drama. The setting, in and around Newcastle, is charming too, very different from gritty inner city dramas as well as from picture perfect villages that are typically the sites of crime shows. The relationship between Vera and her sergeant mirrors that of Morse and Lewis (the single work obsessed detective and his long-suffering family oriented colleague). While Morse as a fifty-something bachelor was presented as an oddly desirable, enigmatic, man with his occasional liaisons, Vera as a fifty-something single woman is depicted as lonely and frumpy. Morse's love of booze was endearing; Vera's is merely pathetic. This is, sadly, a realistic comment on the different ways in which single men and women are perceived the world over. Unlike Morse, which was pretty much a two-character series, this one involves the larger detection team as well. The resolution is not the result of inspired, instant, intuition, but careful detection. I watched the series in reverse order, and preferred series 2 to series 1; the second episode of the second series is superb.