Characters in How the Light Gets In

Armand Gamache

Chief Inspector of homicide, isolated inside his own force and preparing a final move against it.

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

Jean-Guy Beauvoir

Gamache's estranged second-in-command, deep in addiction and turned against him.

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

Myrna Landers

Three Pines bookseller and retired psychologist, whose missing friend opens the case.

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

Ruth Zardo

The village poet, one of the few who knows who the missing woman was.

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

Thérèse Brunel

Superintendent and ally who joins Gamache in Three Pines.

Also in A Great Reckoning

Clara Morrow

Also in Still Life, The Murder Stone, Bury Your Dead, A Trick of the Light, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning, 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, The Long Way Home, A Great Reckoning, 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, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning, Glass Houses

Yvette Nichol

Also in Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, Bury Your Dead

Isabelle Lacoste

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

Reine-Marie Gamache

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

Sylvain Francoeur

Also in The Cruelest Month, Bury Your Dead, The Beautiful Mystery

Annie Gamache

Also in The Beautiful Mystery, The Long Way Home, A Great Reckoning, Glass Houses

Audrey Villeneuve

Constance Pineault

Jérôme Brunel

Inspector Tessier

Georges Renard

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, The Long Way Home