Characters in A Trick of the Light

Armand Gamache

Chief Inspector of homicide, investigating a killing in the garden of a friend.

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

Clara Morrow

Three Pines artist whose long-awaited solo exhibition is overshadowed by a body in her garden.

Also in Still Life, The Murder Stone, A Better Man, Miss Wolcott's Ghost

Lillian Dyson

The victim: Clara's estranged childhood friend and the critic who savaged her work.

Jean-Guy Beauvoir

Gamache's second-in-command, still recovering from the raid.

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

Peter Morrow

Clara's husband, a painter whose success is eclipsed by hers.

Also in Still Life, The Murder Stone