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DCI Vera Stanhope must piece together Luke's final hours in order to investigate his murder. ...

A young man seeking his biological father is found face down in the water. ...

DCI Vera Stanhope must unravel the circumstances of self-styled entrepreneur Freddie Gill's death when his body is found by bailiffs, attempting to repossess his house. ...

A Newcastle beauty empire is shaken to the ground, when one of three sisters is found dead in the River Tyne. ...

The nude corpse of teenager Ethan Dewley is fished from a reservoir near the saw-mill where his father Sean, who reported him missing three days earlier, works. Adam Jann ...

After Alison Glenn is found dead in her garden her prison officer husband husband Michael tells Vera she had fallen out with best friend Asha over Asha's son Sahil's obse ...

Driving home from a funeral Faye Wakeland is run off the road and dies in hospital. Some years earlier she had accused her step-mother Susan of trying to kill her but Sus ...

The charred corpse of policeman Harry Fenton is discovered at an abattoir known for rule-bending, on the day of his retirement. Colleagues tell Vera he seemed distracted ...

The body of teenager Mia Hinkin is discovered six weeks after her disappearance from the remote farmhouse where she lived with her stern parents Mal and Nell. She was las ...

Journalism student Jamie Marshall falls to his death from the roof of a derelict college building after posting an angry online rant about extortionate tuition fees and s ...

Young drug addict Nathan Weaver is found murdered in a rural river and Vera wonders why he had not sold a valuable ring found on his body to finance his habit. He had bri ...

Gemma Wyatt, a wildlife ranger, is found dead off the coast of the bird sanctuary where she spent the night alone whilst colleagues celebrated her boss Sophia's leaving d ...

Former trawler-man Tommy Stonnall's corpse is pulled from the sea six weeks after his sons reported him missing. He was depressed following his wife's death, huge debts a ...

After student Alex Gartside is run over and killed, Vera visits the home she was housesitting for an elderly couple on holiday only to discover the corpse of a young man. ...

The corpse of young Jamie Thorne is found wrapped in bin bags in a cave. Vera establishes that he had recently worked for funfair owners Morven and Bobby Pevensey, He had ...

When Anne-Marie Richards is found dead on the moors, shoe-less, Vera deduces that she was killed at home and the body dumped. Although her daughters and doctor claim that ...

With Joe now promoted Vera and her new sergeant, Aiden Healy, investigate a fatal explosion at a caravan park which killed Deena Viner, sister of the park's owner Jim. De ...

Vera investigates the murder of young Niall Coulter, whose body fell from a bridge onto a lorry which ended up in Portsmouth. Both his employer Marty and his mother Shirl ...

Running from the killer of his single mother Margaret Wilde, eleven-year-old Adam is rescued by Vera though he can tell her nothing helpful except that he saw peacocks. E ...