Top billed cast

1. 

   Brenda Blethyn

   DCI Vera Stanhope

2. 

   Jon Morrison

   DC Kenny Lockhart

3. 

   Riley Jones

   DC Mark Edwards

4. 

   Kenny Doughty

   DS Aiden Healy

5. 

   Ibinabo Jack

   DC Jacqueline 'Jac' Williams

6. 

   David Leon

   DS Joe Ashworth

7. 

   Paul Kaye

   Dr Malcolm Donahue

8. 

   Kingsley Ben-Adir

   Dr Marcus Summer

9. 

   Paul Ritter

   Dr Billy Cartwright

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Current Season

Season 14

2025 | 2 Episodes

Reviews

A review by MovieGuys

Written by MovieGuys on 2024-12-14

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 their flat. Vera opines about the the "poor tax man" not getting his cut. All of which, ignores the abject poverty in the UK and the incredible waste of public money, on things like military spending.

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2. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries72%
3. Unforgettable72%
4. Case Histories78%
5. Baretta65%
6. Dalziel and Pascoe64%
7. Barnaby Jones70%
8. Dragnet69%
9. Scott & Bailey73%
10. Agatha Christie's Poirot81%
11. The Glades69%
12. The Mysteries of Laura71%
13. Endeavour80%
14. Van der Valk64%
15. Ironside68%
16. Frankie Drake Mysteries63%
17. Sister Boniface Mysteries64%
18. Annika69%
19. The Coroner63%
20. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries76%

Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Vera

Keywords

• england
• detective
• kidnapping
• northern england
• police
• murder
• criminal
• police detective
• criminal investigation
• forensic science
• female detective
• crime investigation
• northumberland
• hardboiled detective
• police procedural
• cosy crime