Characters in A World of Curiosities

Armand Gamache

Chief Inspector of homicide, confronting a case that reaches back to the start of his partnership with Beauvoir.

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 and second-in-command; the flashbacks trace their first case together.

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, A Better Man

Fiona Arsenault

Daughter of a murder victim from Gamache and Beauvoir's first case, returned to Three Pines.

Sam Arsenault

Fiona's brother, whom Gamache regards with deep unease.

Ruth Zardo

The village poet.

Also in Bury Your Dead, How the Light Gets In, The Nature of the Beast, Glass Houses, The Madness of Crowds