Notes on an ExecutionDanya Kukafka

Characters in Notes on an Execution

5 characters, main characters first.

Antagonists

Ansel Packer
A serial killer on death row, scheduled for execution, whose story is deconstructed through the perspectives of the women in his life.

Saffron Singh
A homicide detective who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice and was hot on Ansel's trail.
Hazel Fisk
Twin sister of Jenny, the woman Ansel marries. She is wary of him from the Christmas her sister first brings him home, and is left to carry the loss and to keep her sister's memory.
Lavender (Notes on an Execution)
Ansel's mother, seventeen when he is born and held with her infant on an isolated upstate New York farmhouse by his father, Johnny Packer. Her flight from that house shapes the rest of his life.
Jenny Fisk
Hazel's twin sister, who meets Ansel as a young woman and marries him.