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 Running Grave, 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 Running Grave, 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.

Anna Phipps

Margot Bamborough's adult daughter, who hires Strike's agency to find out what happened to her mother in 1974.

Roy Phipps

Margot's husband at the time of her disappearance, a haematologist who has since remarried and is one of the people the investigators must interview.

Paul Satchwell

A photographer and artist who was Margot's former boyfriend and a witness whose account Strike and Robin have to weigh.

Janice Beattie

The district nurse at Margot's Clerkenwell practice, one of the colleagues who knew her in the weeks before she vanished.

Oonagh Kennedy

Margot's long-time friend, whom she was due to meet on the evening she disappeared.