Characters in The Hallmarked Man

Cormoran Strike

Investigating the intersection of London's antique trade, Freemasonry, and a disputed identity at the centre of a dismemberment case.

Also in The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White, Troubled Blood, The Ink Black Heart, The Running Grave

Robin Ellacott

Strike's partner and co-investigator, whose role in the case and whose ongoing personal story continue to develop across this eighth instalment.

Also in The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White, Troubled Blood, The Ink Black Heart, The Running Grave

Decima Mullins

The woman who hires Strike, convinced the unidentified body is her missing boyfriend rather than the convicted criminal the police believe it to be.

Shankar

Linda Ellacott

Also in The Cuckoo's Calling, Career of Evil

Kim Cochran

Ryan Murphy

Robin's boyfriend, a police officer, whose job complicates the agency's challenge to the official identification of the body.

Pat Chauncey

Sam Barclay

Anjelica Wallner

Midge Greenstreet

Kenneth Ramsay

Jade Semple

Nina Lascellles

Diana Boadu

Calvin Osgood

Pamela Bullen-Driscoll

Sacha Legard

Ilsa Herbert

Bijou Watkins

Rupert Fleetwood

Decima Mullins's boyfriend, missing, whom she believes is the victim found in the silver shop vault.