The novelist Ann Cleeves has enjoyed phenomenal success with her Vera Stanhope series. Stanhope is an English homicide investigator. The 10th book came out last year and the series has been adapted ...

A prison outreach leads to a meeting between Vera Stanhope and John Brace, a now-incarcerated corrupt former police superintendent, in Diamond Dagger Award–winner Cleeves’s engrossing eighth mystery ...

Like other American fans of British mystery writer Ann Cleeves, I was introduced to her world through the PBS-based mystery series “Vera.” Title character Vera Stanhope, played by the marvelous ...

Fans of the Vera Stanhope novels already available in the U.S., as well as the TV series Vera, will welcome Cleeves’s intricate series opener (first published in 1998), which introduced the ...

Combined with beautifully shot landscapes and atmospheric production, each episode creates a haunting backdrop for Vera's inner turmoil as she discovers hidden truths about her own past, which ...

The cast and crew of Vera are back in the region as filming starts on series 11 of the much loved crime drama in Northumberland. And on Monday morning it was the author responsible for giving the ...