Characters in The Last King of Texas

Jackson "Tres" Navarre

Private investigator and PhD who fills a deadly faculty vacancy at UTSA while investigating the professor's murder.

Also in Big Red Tequila, The Widower's Two-Step, The Devil Went Down to Austin, Southtown, Mission Road, Rebel Island

Erainya Manos

Tres's tough boss at the San Antonio investigation agency.

Also in The Widower's Two-Step, Southtown

Ana DeLeon

A San Antonio police detective whose path crosses Tres's investigation.

Also in Mission Road

Zeta Sanchez

A hard, violent figure long tied to the earlier killing of carnival magnate Jeremiah Brandon.

Jeremiah Brandon

A ruthless amusement-ride manufacturer, the so-called King of the Carnivals, whose past murder haunts the case.

Ines Brandon

The slain professor's widow, whose troubled family history becomes central to the truth Tres uncovers.