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.

Watch "Vera" from US streaming services acorntv-acorntv-subscription, Acorn TV (Prime), Hoopla and several more released in 2011. It's a crime and drama show, and has a rating of 7.9 from Imdb which is fairly okay for this kind of show.