Hidden Pictures
Characters in Hidden Pictures
9 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Mallory Quinn
Twenty-three, newly sober after an OxyContin injury spiralled into heroin, hired as the Maxwells' live-in babysitter. Her history is why no one believes what she says about the drawings.
Supporting characters
Ted Maxwell
Teddy's father, an affable tech worker who is more sympathetic to Mallory than his wife is.
Caroline Maxwell
Teddy's mother, a Spring Brook professional who sets strict rules about screens and sugar and about what Mallory may say to her son.
Teddy Maxwell
The shy five-year-old in Mallory's care, whose drawings of an imaginary friend grow far beyond what a child his age could produce.
Adrian (Hidden Pictures)
The Maxwells' landscaper, about Mallory's age, who becomes her ally and the one person willing to look into the drawings with her.
Mitzi (Hidden Pictures)
The odd, nosy next-door neighbour who reads auras and tells Mallory about the artist who vanished from the guest cottage in the late 1940s.
Annie Barrett
The artist who lived in the Maxwells' guest cottage in the late 1940s and disappeared; Mallory comes to suspect her ghost is behind Teddy's pictures.
Adrien (Hidden Pictures)