Characters in Lethal White

Cormoran Strike

Managing a growing agency and a personal life with increasing complications, Strike's investigation into political blackmail pulls him into the intersection of wealth, power, and concealed crime.

Also in The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Troubled Blood, The Ink Black Heart, The Hallmarked Man

Robin Ellacott

Now a fully qualified detective, Robin navigates a marriage under strain alongside undercover work that tests her professionalism and her sense of who she is outside Strike's agency.

Also in The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Troubled Blood, The Ink Black Heart, The Hallmarked Man

Jasper Chiswell

The Conservative MP who hires Strike — a man with significant secrets of his own, whose request for help with blackmail opens up a larger and darker picture.

Billy Knight

A mentally unstable young man who visits Strike's office claiming to have witnessed a child being strangled when he was a boy — the encounter that launches the novel's central investigation.

Matthew Cunliffe

Robin's husband, whose jealousy of Strike and resistance to her ambitions as a detective place growing strain on their marriage.