Led by BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actress Brenda Blethyn as the unorthodox but brilliant DCI Vera Stanhope, ITVs top-rating crime drama now spans eight series in this collection of episodes. Based on the bestselling Vera Stanhope novels by award-winning writer, Ann Cleeves, Vera may be unconventional and unglamorous, but she faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage. Vera and her team are continually drawn into emotionally compelling cases set against atmospheric panoramas of the breathtaking Northumberland countryside. Vera features intriguing mysteries and gripping performances.