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The Good DaughterKarin SlaughterThe Good Daughter, book 1

Characters in The Good Daughter

8 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Charlotte Quinn

    Known as Charlie, a defense attorney in Pikeville who followed her father into the law and is still shaped by the attack that killed her mother.

    Also in Last Breath

  • Samantha Quinn

    Charlie's older sister, known as Sam, who left Pikeville and lives far from the family and the night that split it.

Antagonists

  • Zachariah Culpepper

    One of the Culpepper brothers, the fugitives behind the 1989 attack on the Quinn family.

Supporting characters

  • Rusty Quinn

    The sisters' father, a controversial Pikeville defense lawyer whose clients make him unpopular with his neighbors.

  • Harriet Quinn

    Known as Gamma, the sisters' mother, a physicist whose murder in the 1989 home invasion is the family's original wound.