Characters in The Relic

Margo Green

A graduate student working at the museum under Dr. Frock, who investigates what is killing people in its basements.

Also in Reliquary, Dance of Death, The Book of the Dead, Blue Labyrinth

Aloysius Pendergast

A secretive, resourceful FBI special agent who joins the investigation after further murders and links the claw to the Amazon expedition.

Vincent D'Agosta

The NYPD lieutenant leading the investigation into the museum murders.

Also in Reliquary, Brimstone, Dance of Death, The Book of the Dead, Cemetery Dance, Fever Dream, Cold Vengeance, Two Graves, Blue Labyrinth, The Obsidian Chamber

Laura Hayward

Also in Brimstone, Dance of Death, The Book of the Dead, Cemetery Dance, Fever Dream, Cold Vengeance, Two Graves, City of Endless Night, The Cabinet of Dr. Leng

Edward J. Ruppelt

George Moriarty

The curator of the museum's Superstition exhibit, which is about to open to the public.

Spencer Coffey

An FBI agent who works alongside Pendergast on the case.

Also in Dance of Death, The Book of the Dead

Gregory Kawakita

An assistant curator at the museum who studies the creature's nature and origin.

Jack Waxie

Bryce Harriman

Also in The Cabinet of Curiosities, Brimstone, Dance of Death, The Book of the Dead, Cemetery Dance, City of Endless Night

William Smithback

A journalist writing a book about the museum's Superstition exhibit, who is drawn into the murders.

Also in The Cabinet of Curiosities, Dance of Death, The Book of the Dead, Cemetery Dance

Dr. Whitney C. Frock

Margo Green's advisor and the head of her museum department.

Lavinia Rickman

The museum's public relations director, who hires a writer and wants the murders kept quiet before the gala.