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 Cruelest Month, The Murder Stone, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, Glass Houses, Kingdom of the Blind, All the Devils Are Here, The Madness of Crowds, The Grey Wolf

Clara Morrow

Also in Still Life, The Murder Stone, Bury Your Dead, A Trick of the Light, How the Light Gets In, The Nature of the Beast, Glass Houses, Kingdom of the Blind, A Better Man, Miss Wolcott's Ghost

Gabriel Dubeau

Also in Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, The Hangman, A Trick of the Light, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, Glass Houses

Olivier Brulé

Also in Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, A Trick of the Light, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, Glass Houses

Ruth Zardo

Also in Still Life, Bury Your Dead, A Trick of the Light, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, Glass Houses, Kingdom of the Blind, The Madness of Crowds, A World of Curiosities

Myrna Landers

Also in Still Life, Bury Your Dead, The Hangman, A Trick of the Light, How the Light Gets In, The Nature of the Beast, Glass Houses, Kingdom of the Blind

Dr. Sharon Harris

Also in Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, The Brutal Telling, The Hangman

Isabelle Lacoste

Also in Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, The Brutal Telling, A Trick of the Light, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, Glass Houses, The Grey Wolf

Michel Brebeuf

Also in Still Life, The Cruelest Month

Billy Williams

Also in A Fatal Grace

Monsieur Beliveau

Also in The Cruelest Month, The Nature of the Beast

Daniel Gamache

Also in The Cruelest Month

Roslyn Gamache

Also in The Cruelest Month

Florence Gamache

Also in The Cruelest Month

Annie Gamache

Also in The Beautiful Mystery, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, Glass Houses

Thérèse Brunel

Also in How the Light Gets In

Huifen Cloutier

Also in Kingdom of the Blind

Jacques Laurin

Nathaniel Smythe

Chantal Marcoux

Hugo Charpentier

Marcel Godbut

Mayor Florent

Marie Florent

Paul Gélinas

Elizabeth Coldbrook

Anthony Turcotte

Monsieur Bergeron

Honoré Beauvoir

Also in Glass Houses

Zora Gamache

Chief Inspector Gamache

Also in Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, The Murder Stone, The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, The Hangman, A Trick of the Light, The Beautiful Mystery, How the Light Gets In