• Air date: 31 Jan '16 4 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (4)
    • 1. Dark Road

      31 Jan '16
      The body of a woman is found on the bleak Northumberland moors.
    • 2. Tuesday's Child

      07 Feb '16
      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.
    • 3. The Moth Catcher

      14 Feb '16
      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.
    • 4. The Sea Glass

      21 Feb '16
      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