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Book cover of Pretty Dead Things
Pretty Dead ThingsKelsey Cox

Characters in Pretty Dead Things

9 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Ingrid Whitmore

    Isabelle's twin sister, who fled Anhalt after Isabelle's disappearance in 2000 and returns twenty-five years later as construction on Sherman Ranch threatens to unearth old secrets.

Antagonists

  • Kennedy Claire

    Sarah Lynn's ruthless mother and a former pageant competitor herself, obsessed with her daughter's success.

Supporting characters

  • Isabelle Whitmore

    Ingrid's twin sister, who vanished from Sherman Ranch during the pageant in 2000 and was never found.

  • Cat Dennis

    A newly sober mother rebuilding her relationship with her competing daughter while old fears resurface.

  • Melanie Campbell

    A hospice nurse and the town's reliable "good egg," whose own past traumas surface as the pageant returns.

  • Sarah Lynn Preston

    A seventeen-year-old pageant competitor from a family of past winners, for whom losing is not an option.

  • Ben Sherman

    Isabelle's boyfriend at the time of her disappearance, long regarded around town as the person most likely to know what happened to her.

  • Olivia

    Cat's teenage daughter, competing in the same pageant her mother once did.

  • Hannah

    Melanie's daughter, also competing in the pageant.