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The ButcherJennifer Hillier

Characters in The Butcher

3 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Matt (The Butcher)

    Edward Shank's grandson, an up-and-coming Seattle chef and restaurateur who inherits the family home and discovers his grandfather's crate of trophies.

  • Sam (The Butcher)

    Matt's girlfriend, a true-crime writer convinced her mother was murdered by the Beacon Hill Butcher years after the killer was supposedly stopped.

Antagonists

  • Edward Shank

    Retired Seattle police chief celebrated as a hero for stopping the Beacon Hill Butcher in 1985 — now an elderly man whose grandson uncovers evidence he was the real killer.