Characters in Kingdom of the Blind

Armand Gamache

Suspended Chief Superintendent, named executor of a stranger's impossible will.

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, weighing a job offer that would take him away.

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, A Better Man, All the Devils Are Here

Amelia Choquet

The expelled cadet, now on the street and closer to the missing opioids than anyone realises.

Also in A Great Reckoning

Myrna Landers

Three Pines bookseller, and a fellow executor of the strange will.

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, Glass Houses

Benedict Pouliot

A young builder, the third named executor.

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, Glass Houses, 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

Ruth Zardo

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, Glass Houses, The Madness of Crowds, A World of Curiosities

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, Glass Houses, All the Devils Are Here, The Madness of Crowds, The Grey Wolf

Huifen Cloutier

Also in A Great Reckoning

Bertha Baumgartnor

Anthony Baumgartnor

Caroline Baumgartnor

Hugo Baumgartnor

Benedict Burke

Katie Burke

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