The BEST Episodes of Vera
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Oct 21, 2021
Network: ITV
DCI Vera Stanhope is obsessive about her work. With her caustic wit and guile, the unorthodox but brilliant detective investigates chilling crimes set in Northumberland with her trusted colleagues.
#1 - Death of a Family Man
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired May 18, 2014
Vera delves into the tangled life of a businessman found floating in the water under the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
8.09 
#2 - The Seagull
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired Feb 3, 2019
Vera must find the connection between a skeleton discovered underneath the site of a notorious burnt-out nightclub and a present day murder.
8.07 
#3 - Blood and Bone
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired Jan 7, 2018
Vera is called to a chilling murder scene when the charred remains of a body are discovered in an abattoir incinerator.
8.07 
#4 - Dark Road
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired Jan 31, 2016
Vera investigates the murder of a 56-year-old grandmother discovered by a young girl on the wild and desolate Northumberland moors.
8.07 #5 - Tuesday's Child
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired Feb 7, 2016
Vera investigates the death of a local lad whose body is found wrapped in plastic sheets at a rural teenage hang out.
7.98 #6 - The Sea Glass
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired Feb 21, 2016
Vera investigates the mysterious death of a fisherman found tangled in the nets of a North Sea trawler.
7.97 
#7 - Prodigal Son
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Sep 15, 2013
Vera's investigation into the murder of an ex-Met officer turns out to be far more complicated than initially imagined.
7.97 
#8 - Young Gods
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired Sep 8, 2013
Vera investigates the death of an extreme sports fanatic, who was seen by a group of campers jumping into the lake while on fire from head to toe.
7.97 
#9 - Broken Promise
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired Apr 2, 2017
Vera is called to Northumberland University when a student plummets to his death from the top of a disused faculty building.
7.94 
#10 - Cuckoo
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired Jan 20, 2019
Vera must get to the bottom of why a teenage boy is found murdered far away from his home in a coastal town.
7.93 
#11 - The Blanket Mire
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired Apr 9, 2017
Surveyors out on the Northumberland moors make a shocking discovery: the body of a young woman buried beneath the soil.
7.92 
#12 - Castles in the Air
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired Aug 25, 2013
A young physiotherapist is brutally murdered and Vera leads the investigation into her death.
7.92 
#13 - Protected
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired May 4, 2014
Vera unearths a 30-year-old mystery after a brutal murder on the sands of a seaside resort.
7.92 
#14 - Blind Spot
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired Jan 13, 2019
Vera investigates the murder of a trainee forensic psychologist found dead on a Northumberland landfill site.
7.91 
#15 - Dark Angel
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired Mar 26, 2017
The body of a young man is discovered face down in a river by Thrunton Woods. But tracing the victim's identity proves difficult for Vera and her team.
7.91 
#16 - Darkwater
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired Jan 28, 2018
Vera is confronted with a tragic mystery when the dead body of teenager Ethan Dewley is found floating in a reservoir.
7.91 
#17 - Old Wounds
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired Apr 12, 2015
When the remains of a teenage girl are found half-buried in a wood, Vera and her team find themselves investigating a 30-year-old mystery.
7.91 
#18 - Black Ice
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired Jan 14, 2018
Vera is called to the scene of a violent car crash, and quickly realizes that the crash was not accidental and that another driver tried to kill victim, Faye Wakeland.
7.90 
#19 - The Deer Hunters
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired May 11, 2014
Vera delves into the tragic last months of a failed novelist after he is gunned down on a remote Northumberland moor.
7.89 
#20 - Muddy Waters
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired Apr 19, 2015
Vera investigates the death of an unidentified man dredged up from a slurry pit on a remote Northumberland farm.
7.89 
#21 - The Escape Turn
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired Feb 2, 2020
Vera investigates the case of a wealthy betting shop tycoon who was murdered during a home invasion in front of his wife and daughter.
7.88 
#22 - On Harbour Street
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired Apr 27, 2014
Vera investigates the mysterious death of a pensioner on a busy commuter train.
7.87 
#23 - Home
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired Jan 21, 2018
Quiet life in suburbia takes a dark turn when a woman is discovered lying dead in her back garden.
7.85 
#24 - Dirty
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired Jan 26, 2020
DCI Vera Stanhope must piece together Luke Sumner's final hours in order to investigate his murder.
7.85 
#25 - Natural Selection
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired Mar 19, 2017
Vera is drawn into a suspicious death on Ternstone, a remote and inaccessible island off the coast of Northumberland, home only to numerous species of birds and the rangers who observe them.
7.85