Character List for The Good Detective

The Mason Falls PD

Paul Thomas “P. T.” Marsh—the narrator, a detective with the Mason Falls (GA) PD

Remy Morgan—Marsh’s partner, also a detective

Darren Gattling—beat cop with the MFPD

Sarah Raines—the medical examiner with the MFPD

Alvin Gerbin—crime scene tech with MFPD

Abe Kaplan—with Berry, half of the other detective team at MFPD; Marsh’s former partner

Merle Berry—with Kaplan, half of the other detective team at MFPD

Chief Miles Dooger—(aka “Stash”) chief of police for MFPD; Marsh’s boss and one-time mentor

Cornell Fuller—MFPD internal affairs officer

Fin McRae—a deputy with MFPD who reports a drunk Marvin to Marsh

Winston Lamar—a patrolman MFPD has posted at Harmony Farms to repel media

Friends/Family/Characters Around Mason Falls PD

Purvis—Marsh’s bulldog (and inner voice?)

Lena Marsh—Marsh’s dead wife (killed in year-ago accident)

Jonas Marsh—Marsh’s dead son (killed in year-ago accident)

Marvin—Lena Marsh’s father

Exie—Lena Marsh’s twin sister, also a part-time psychic and serial shoplifter

Horace Ordell—bouncer at The Landing Patch bar

Deb Newberry—TV station field reporter

Carlos Ray—mechanic at police mechanics yard

Candy Mellar—oversees Special Collections at University library; a friend of Marsh’s mother

Loyo—Dooger’s phone company contact

Characters Around Murder Scene #1

Corinne Stables (aka “Crimson”)—stripper at The Landing Patch

Virgil Rowe—Stables’s abusive, neo-Nazi boyfriend; murdered soon after meeting Marsh

Randall Moon—Stables’s and Rowe’s landlord

Martha Velasquez—retired school counselor who saw Stables leave and someone else enter the property the night Rowe was killed

Characters Around Arson/Murder Scene #2

Kendrick Webster—missing boy who turns up tortured, lynched, and burned at Harmony Farms

Tripp Unger—(with wife Barb) owner of Harmony Farms whose land was burned in arson and on whose land Kendrick Webster’s body was found

Brodie Sands—crop duster who called in the fire at Harmony Farms

Rev. Reggie Webster—Baptist preacher and father of Kendrick Webster

Grace Webster—mother of Kendrick Webster

Dathel Mackay—older woman who cooks and cleans for the Websters

Jayme McClure—school friend of Kendrick Webster’s at whose home we was supposed to be spending the night when he was kidnapped

Vaughn McClure—Jayme’s father; owns McClure Towing

Alana McClure—Jayme’s mother, who sends the boys home early

Eric Sumpter—the other school friend of Kendrick Webster’s who was at the McClure’s and sent home early

Terrance Clap—clerk at A-1 Industrial who tells Marsh about cable

Cory Burkette—new handyman at Webster’s church; suspect in Kendrick Webster’s murder

Pup Lang—lead arson investigator with Mason Falls Fire Department who investigated fire at Harmony Farms

Delilah Ward—Remy Morgan’s cousin’s granddaughter who’s kidnapped as part of the Kendrick Webster kidnapping/murder

Leticia Ward—Delilah’s younger sister

Lawrence Neary—one of the state police who helps with Delilah’s rescue

Characters Around 1993 Arson/Murder

Junius Lochland—missing grandson of a preacher; Junius turns up tortured and murdered in 1993 case in Shonus County, GA

Capt. Andy Sugarman—present-day sheriff of Shonus County

Brett Beaudin—present-day medical examiner of Shonus County

Brian Menasco—arrested for and convicted of the 1993 arson/murder of Junius Lochland, probably mistakenly; killed in a prison fight

William Menasco—Brian’s father who won back-to-back superfectas on the same day his son was sentenced

Characters Around 1968 Arson/Murder

Jerome Twyman—missing teen never found; named in the ledger Marsh gets from Mellar

Sheila Jones—murder/arson victim; named in the ledger Marsh gets from Mellar

Cliff Monroe—wins governorship when the two primary candidates are killed in a freak snowstorm accident; father of current governor Toby Monroe

Mickey Havordine—Cliff Monroe’s first campaign manager

Other Characters with Connections to “The Order of the South”

Bernard Kane—shows up at MFPD drunk and tries to confess to Webster’s murder; later hangs himself in his cell

Lauten Hartley—lawyer connected with Bernard Kane and other members of “the Order”

Gov. Toby Monroe—current GA governor; son of former Gov. Cliff Monroe

Tyler Windall—security patrol for Hester Peaches

Talmadge Hester—owner of Hester Peaches and Hester Plantation

Wade Hester—Talmadge Hester’s older son and probable heir

Matthew Hester—Talmadge Hester’s younger son; Marsh mistakes him for Meadows’s accomplice

Donnie Meadows—a Samoan-German who lives on the Hester Plantation; he’s referred to by various other characters as “the giant” or “the big ‘un”

Elias Cobb—Meadows’s accomplice, the bearded man

Bayard Oxley—founder of “the Order”; other family names associated with founding: Stover, Hennessey, Kane, Granton, Monroe, Hester

Francis Oxley—the archer at the hunting compound and a descendant of Bayard Oxley