Characters in The Box in the Woods

Stevie Bell

Anxious, brilliant teenage amateur detective obsessed with true crime, hired to investigate the decades-old Box in the Woods murders.

Also in The Vanishing Stair, The Hand on the Wall

David Eastman

Stevie's boyfriend from Ellingham, who turns up to complicate her summer investigation.

Also in The Hand on the Wall

Nate Fisher

Stevie's reluctant, sardonic writer friend from Ellingham Academy.

Janelle Franklin

Stevie's organized, engineering-minded Ellingham friend.