Characters in A Better Man

Armand Gamache

Demoted to head of homicide, hunting a missing woman as floodwaters rise and the public turns against him.

Also in Still Life, The Cruelest Month, The Murder Stone, The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, A Trick of the Light, The Beautiful Mystery, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast

Jean-Guy Beauvoir

Gamache's son-in-law, now sharing his rank and about to leave for a job in Paris.

Also in Still Life, Bury Your Dead, A Trick of the Light, The Beautiful Mystery, How the Light Gets In, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning, Glass Houses, Kingdom of the Blind, All the Devils Are Here

Vivienne Godin

The missing pregnant woman at the centre of the case.

Homer Godin

Vivienne's father, convinced her husband has killed her.

Clara Morrow

Three Pines artist, facing a savaging of her new work.

Also in Still Life, The Murder Stone, A Trick of the Light, Miss Wolcott's Ghost