The BEST episodes written by Ann Cleeves

8.05

357 votes

#1 - Death of a Family Man

Vera - Season 4 - Episode 4

Vera delves into the tangled life of a businessman found floating in the water under the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.

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7.99

360 votes

#2 - Blood and Bone

Vera - Season 8 - Episode 1

Vera is called to a chilling murder scene when the charred remains of a body are discovered in an abattoir incinerator.

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7.93

382 votes

#3 - Tuesday's Child

Vera - Season 6 - Episode 2

Vera investigates the death of a local lad whose body is found wrapped in plastic sheets at a rural teenage hang out.

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7.93

420 votes

#4 - Broken Promise

Vera - Season 7 - Episode 3

Vera is called to Northumberland University when a student plummets to his death from the top of a disused faculty building.

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7.91

339 votes

#5 - The Sea Glass

Vera - Season 6 - Episode 4

Vera investigates the mysterious death of a fisherman found tangled in the nets of a North Sea trawler.

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7.88

426 votes

#6 - The Blanket Mire

Vera - Season 7 - Episode 4

Surveyors out on the Northumberland moors make a shocking discovery: the body of a young woman buried beneath the soil.

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7.85

475 votes

#7 - Natural Selection

Vera - Season 7 - Episode 1

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.

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7.85

350 votes

#8 - Darkwater

Vera - Season 8 - Episode 4

Vera is confronted with a tragic mystery when the dead body of teenager Ethan Dewley is found floating in a reservoir.

7.85

445 votes

#9 - Dark Angel

Vera - Season 7 - Episode 2

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.

7.84

370 votes

#10 - The Moth Catcher

Vera - Season 6 - Episode 3

Vera investigates the murder of 22-year-old Alex Gartside, victim of a hit and run in a remote Northumberland Valley.

7.83

350 votes

#11 - Black Ice

Vera - Season 8 - Episode 2

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.

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7.80

352 votes

#12 - Home

Vera - Season 8 - Episode 3

Quiet life in suburbia takes a dark turn when a woman is discovered lying dead in her back garden.

7.79

476 votes

#13 - Episode 1

Shetland - Season 4 - Episode 1

When Shetlander Thomas Malone has his murder conviction overturned after 23 years, which he's spent behind bars, Perez has to reopen an investigation into the 1994 death of local teenager Lizzie Kilmuir. Later, Perez gets a text from Cassie saying she is unexpectedly flying back to Shetland, so he and Duncan meet her at the airport.

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7.76

471 votes

#14 - The Ghost Position

Vera - Season 2 - Episode 1

Vera's reunion with her first sergeant occurs under tragic circumstances when his house is petrol-bombed. The investigation forces her to face old memories.

7.75

337 votes

#15 - Sandancers

Vera - Season 2 - Episode 4

The authorities at a local army base are in an ungodly hurry to declare the death of a decorated Afghanistan War veteran a suicide, but Vera doubts it.

7.68

475 votes

#16 - Silent Voices

Vera - Season 2 - Episode 2

Vera investigates the murder of a social worker and finds that a notorious case involving the death of a child may hold the key to solving the case.

7.65

384 votes

#17 - A Certain Samaritan

Vera - Season 2 - Episode 3

A young man is found dead with heroin in his blood and a stolen credit card in his wallet. But only when Vera learns details of his mother's life does a motive for murder emerge.