Characters in The Beautiful Mystery

Armand Gamache

Chief Inspector of homicide, admitted into a closed monastery to find a murderer among its monks.

Also in Still Life, The Cruelest Month, The Murder Stone, The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, A Trick of the Light, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning

Jean-Guy Beauvoir

Gamache's second-in-command, whose recovery from injury leaves him dangerously vulnerable.

Also in Still Life, Bury Your Dead, A Trick of the Light, How the Light Gets In, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning, Glass Houses, Kingdom of the Blind, A Better Man, All the Devils Are Here

Sylvain Francoeur

Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, whose arrival at the monastery serves his own ends.

Also in The Cruelest Month, Bury Your Dead, How the Light Gets In

Dom Philippe

The abbot of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups.

Annie Gamache

Also in How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, A Great Reckoning, Glass Houses

Chief Inspector Gamache

Also in Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, The Murder Stone, The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, The Hangman, A Trick of the Light, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home