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Book cover of The Perfect Son
The Perfect SonFreida McFadden

Characters in The Perfect Son

5 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Erika Cass

    A suburban mother who has long suspected that her seemingly perfect teenage son may be capable of something terrible.

Supporting characters

  • Liam Cass

    Erika's sixteen-year-old son: charming, popular and academically gifted, and among the last people to see a missing classmate alive.

  • Olivia Mercer

    A teenage girl from Liam's school whose disappearance brings the police to the Cass family's door, and the novel's second narrator.

  • Hannah Cass

    Erika and Jason's fourteen-year-old daughter, Liam's younger sister.

  • Jason Cass

    Erika's husband and Liam's father, the wealthy founder of a technology company.