Characters in Troubled Blood

Cormoran Strike

Managing the investigation with his usual rigour while his personal life — his relationship with Charlotte's crisis and his growing feelings for Robin — reaches a turning point.

Also in The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White, The Ink Black Heart, The Hallmarked Man

Robin Ellacott

Fully established as Strike's equal partner, whose instincts for the cold case and whose developing personal life both reach significant resolutions in this instalment.

Also in The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White, The Ink Black Heart, The Hallmarked Man

Dennis Creed

A convicted serial killer already imprisoned when the investigation begins — the question of his connection to Margot's disappearance drives the procedural tension of the novel.

Margot Bamborough

The missing GP whose disappearance in 1974 is the case's centre — reconstructed through the memories of those who knew her, she becomes one of the most fully drawn victims in the series.