The Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office (MCME) (North Carolina)
Temperance “Tempe” Brennan—the narrator, a forensic anthropologist who also works for LSJML (Montreal) and is often loaned to Charleston County coroner’s office (South Carolina); she also teaches biological and forensic anthropology at UNC-Charlotte
Dr. Samantha Nguyen—in charge of MCME office, Brennan’s newest boss
Eunice Flowers—MCME receptionist
Tereza Deacon—one of Brennan’s MCME cases: an adopted Bulgarian girl who dies in her NC home while parents are sailing in the Caribbean
Lloyd Thorn—the Deacon family lawyer
Charleston County (South Carolina)
Ebony Herrin—newly elected county coroner, an RN; borrows Brennan from MCME to investigate skeletons in a container washed up on SC coast
Dr. Walter Carl Klopp—pathologist for Charleston County
Brian—tech for coroner’s office
Tonia Vislosky—police detective with Charleston (SC) PD
Characters Related to South Carolina Container Case
Dr. Aubrey “Sullie” Sullivan Huger—owner of genetic testing company GeneFree (HQ in SC); has biochemistry and software engineering degrees; DNA reveals he’s distantly related to one of the SC container victims
Abilene Monger—receptionist/office manager at GeneFree
Digby France—grandfather of one of the SC container victims; Huger’s 1st cousin, once removed; living near Nashville, TN
Bonnie Bird Boatwright—France’s daughter
Harmony Wren Boatwright—France’s granddaughter (and Huger’s 2nd cousin, once removed)
Lena Chalamet—a Canadian girl Harmony meets on an online app; her mother and sister vanished near Montreal in 2002 when Lena was a toddler
Friends/Family/Other Characters Around North and South Carolina
Cat Bird—aka “Birdie,” Brennan’s cat and reluctant travel companion
Katy Petersons—Brennan’s daughter, deployed in Afghanistan but due stateside soon
Polly Susanne Beecroft—surviving twin who wants Brennan to analyze a death mask owned by her deceased twin, Harriet
Susanne Bouvier—Polly and Harriet’s grandmother
Sybil Bouvier—Susanne’s twin who went to Paris and vanished; Polly and Harriet bear an uncanny resemblance to Sybil and Susanne
Anne Turnip—Brennan’s best friend; she solves the death mask question
Tom “TT” Turnip—Anne’s ex-husband
Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Medicine Legale (LSJML) in Montreal
Dr. Pierre LaManche—a pathologist and Brennan’s boss at the LSJML
Helene Lauzon—coroner for LSJML and also a lawyer
Lisa Savard—LSJML morgue tech
Claire Willoughby—LSJML DNA tech
Dr. Lizzie Griesser—LSJML molecular biologist
Alfonse Vachon—Lauzon’s father, who sustains an unusual injury in an auto accident
Surete du Quebec (SQ) and Service de Police de la Ville de Montreal (SPVM)
Andrew Ryan—former SQ homicide detective, now a private investigator, and Brennan’s boyfriend
Yves Trout—detective in SQ who doesn’t impress Ryan
Luc Claudel—one of the detectives from SPVM who interviews Brennan when Ryan is injured in a hit-and-run
Michel Charbonneau—one of the detectives from SPVM who interviews Brennan when Ryan is injured in a hit-and-run
Characters Related to 2006 LSJML Container Case
Melanie Judith Chalmers—aka Melanie Chalamet; worked for vaccine manufacturing firm InovoVax near Montreal until 2002 when she quit reporting to work and disappears
Ella Chalamet—Chalmers’s youngest daughter who disappears with her mother
Dr. Arlo Murray—director of InovoVax, a PhD in molecular biology
Dora Eisenberg—clerk at InovoVax
Florence Sorg—Chalmers’s great-aunt; Chalmers was renting an apartment from Sorg when she and Ella disappeared
Dr. Alika Bangoboshe—biology professor at a university in the Boston (MA) area who helps Brennan understand Chalmers’s lab notes
Remi Arbour—manager of the cemetery where the skeletons from the 2006 case were buried and are exhumed
Ariel Caldrea—church member who attends interments of anonymous persons
Laura Bianchi—ambitious young freelance journalist who photographs exhumation
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