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.
Vera review – this non-stop whodunnit is totally unguessable Brenda Blethyn’s long-running detective is like Columbo meets Paddington – and is full of her natural authority. ... TV reviewTelevision & radio.Apart from the alluringly windy…
The plot is of the neat and tidy box-ticking variety. And my word, it drags on. Six ad breaks come and go as Vera bumbles about the beautiful ... TV reviewTV crime drama.Closely followed by Northumberland, Blethyn is the best thing about…
So the scriptwriters go to all these lengths to create believable characters, whom we can like or at least empathise with, and they do so, sometimes with great success. Blethyn's Vera Stanhope has some marvellous aspects, besides the…
