Characters in The Redbreast

Harry Hole

Oslo police detective, a heavy drinker, who is drawn into a neo-Nazi arms case with roots in the Second World War.

Also in The Bat, Cockroaches, Nemesis, Sorgenfri, Marekors, The Redeemer, The Snowman, Gjenferd, Police, The Thirst

Sverre Olsen

A neo-Nazi whom Hole is trying to bring to court.

Sindre Fauke

Ståle Aune

Also in Nemesis

Edvard Mosken

Ellen Gjelten

Hole's police colleague and partner on the case.

Tom Waaler

A fellow police inspector who becomes entangled in the investigation.

Also in Nemesis, Sorgenfri, Marekors

Rakel Fauke

Hole's love interest, a mother with a young son.

Gudbrand Johansen

A Norwegian soldier on the Eastern Front, wounded in 1944 and nursed in a Vienna hospital.

Daniel Gudeson

A Norwegian volunteer in the Waffen-SS whose fate on the Eastern Front echoes into the present.

Even Juul

An elderly man obsessed with the wartime past.