Characters in A banquet of consequences

Lynley

Inspector Lynley of Scotland Yard, a thoughtful and observant detective who leads the investigation into Clare Abbott's death.

Barbara Havers

Detective Constable Barbara Havers, Lynley's long-time partner, who pursues a parallel line of inquiry and grapples with her own professional and personal challenges.

Also in A Great Deliverance, Payment in Blood, Well-Schooled in Murder, For the Sake of Elena, Playing for the Ashes, Deception on His Mind, In pursuit of the proper sinner, A Traitor to Memory, With No One As Witness, This Body of Death

Clare Abbott

A feminist writer and activist whose poisoning sets the plot in motion; her death and the secrets surrounding it drive both Lynley's and Havers' investigations.

Thomas Lynley

Also in A Great Deliverance, Payment in Blood, Well-Schooled in Murder, A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In pursuit of the proper sinner, A Traitor to Memory, With No One As Witness

Winston Nkata

Also in Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy, In pursuit of the proper sinner, A Traitor to Memory, With No One As Witness, This Body of Death, Just One Evil Act, Something to Hide

Isabelle Ardery

Also in Playing for the Ashes, This Body of Death, Believing the lie, Just One Evil Act, The Punishment She Deserves

Caroline Goldacre

William Goldacre

Lily Foster

Alastair MacKerron

Rory Statham

Charlie Goldacre

India Elliott

Francis Goldacre

Sumalee Goldacre

Sharon Halsey

Dorothea Harriman

Also in The Punishment She Deserves, Something to Hide

Daidre Trahair

Also in Just One Evil Act, The Punishment She Deserves, Something to Hide