Characters in A Great Reckoning

Armand Gamache

New commander of the Sûreté academy, and a suspect in the murder of one of his own professors.

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

Serge Leduc

The academy's brutal second-in-command, found murdered in his rooms.

Amelia Choquet

A tattooed, guarded cadet with a hidden connection to the dead instructor — and to Gamache.

Also in Kingdom of the Blind

Jean-Guy Beauvoir

Gamache's son-in-law and former second-in-command.

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, Glass Houses, Kingdom of the Blind, A Better Man, All the Devils Are Here

Reine-Marie Gamache

Gamache's wife.

Also in The Murder Stone, The Nature of the Beast, All the Devils Are Here, The Madness of Crowds, The Grey Wolf, The Black Wolf, Miss Wolcott's Ghost