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.

Dom Philippe

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