Characters in Glass Houses

Armand Gamache

Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté, whose testimony at a Montreal murder trial slowly reveals what he allowed to happen.

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 second-in-command and son-in-law.

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

Isabelle Lacoste

Chief Inspector of homicide under Gamache.

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, A Great Reckoning, The Grey Wolf

Myrna Landers

Three Pines bookseller and retired psychologist.

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

Ruth Zardo

The village poet.

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, A Great Reckoning, Kingdom of the Blind, The Madness of Crowds, A World of Curiosities

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, A Great Reckoning, 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, A Great Reckoning

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, A Great Reckoning

Reine-Marie Gamache

Also in The Cruelest Month, The Murder Stone, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning, Kingdom of the Blind, All the Devils Are Here, The Madness of Crowds, The Grey Wolf

Annie Gamache

Also in The Beautiful Mystery, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, A Great Reckoning

Honoré Beauvoir

Also in A Great Reckoning

Saul Salmanowitz

Mateo Bissonette

Lea Roux

Katie Evans

Patrick Evans

Anton LeBruns

Sarah the baker

Jacqueline Macout

Édouard Valcouer

Madelaine Toussaint

Antonio Ruíz

Maria Celeste Ruíz

Colleen Simpson

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