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Book cover of The Reappearance of Rachel Price
The Reappearance of Rachel PriceHolly Jackson

Characters in The Reappearance of Rachel Price

9 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Bel Price

    Eighteen, prickly and fiercely private. She was the toddler left in the back seat the day her mother disappeared, and she is the one person unwilling to take Rachel's return at face value.

Supporting characters

  • Rachel Price (The Reappearance of Rachel Price)

    Bel's mother, who vanished without trace sixteen years earlier and reappears in the middle of the documentary shoot with an account of those years that does not quite hold together.

  • Charlie Price

    Bel's father, who raised her alone after Rachel disappeared and was tried for her murder and acquitted.

  • Carter Price

    Bel's cousin and closest friend, daughter of her aunt Sherry and uncle Jeff.

  • Ash Maddox

    Camera assistant on the documentary crew and Ramsey Lee's nephew, who becomes Bel's unlikely ally in picking apart her mother's story.

  • Ramsey Lee

    The filmmaker producing and directing the true-crime documentary about the Price family.

  • Patrick Price

    Bel's grandfather and Charlie's father, whose memory is failing.

  • Sherry Price

    Bel's aunt, married to Jeff and mother to Carter.

  • Jeff Price

    Bel's uncle and Charlie's brother.