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Locke & KeyJoe HillLocke & Key, book 1

Characters in Locke & Key

8 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Tyler Locke

    Rendell and Nina's eldest son, a former golden-boy athlete who blames himself for his father's death and becomes the family's reluctant protector at Keyhouse.

  • Kinsey Locke

    The middle Locke sibling, withdrawn and guarded after witnessing her father's murder, who is the first to sense that Keyhouse itself is not ordinary.

  • Bode Locke

    The youngest Locke child, whose fearless curiosity leads him to find the first of Keyhouse's magical keys and hear the voice calling from the wellhouse.

Antagonists

  • Sam Lesser

    A troubled teenager manipulated by a hidden voice into murdering Rendell Locke, who later escapes custody to hunt the Locke family down at Keyhouse.

Supporting characters

  • Nina Locke

    The Locke children's mother, drinking heavily to cope with her husband's murder and too consumed by grief to notice what is stirring in her new home.

  • Rendell Locke

    The Locke family patriarch, killed in the book's opening home invasion in California, whose death sends his widow and children to his childhood home of Keyhouse.

  • Duncan Locke

    Rendell's brother and the Keyhouse caretaker, who reunites with the grieving family when they move in but keeps his own knowledge of the house's secrets to himself.