Character List for Jar City

Erlendur—Detective Inspector with the Reykjavik police

Sigurdur Oli—colleague

Elinborg—colleague

Eva Lind—daughter of Erlender, with a history of drug addiction

Sindri Snar—Erlender’s son out of rehab for the third time; only barely mentioned in this story

Olafur—father and sons who discovered the body. They lived upstairs.

Holberg—murder victim, rapist

Fjola and Birna—twins who had been attacked the same day Holberg was murdered

The Attacker—young man in a green army jacket

The Pilot—another neighbor of Holberg

The couple from Gardabaer—parents of the bride who ran away after her wedding

Disa Ros—missing bride

Viggo—bridegroom

Audur—child who died when she was four years old

Kolbrun—Audur’s mother, committed suicide three years after her daughter’s death

Marion Briem—retired police person known to Erlendur for thirty years

Elin—Kolbrun’s sister

Runar—policeman who failed to investigate Kolbrun’s rape allegations

Gretar—friend of Holberg, with him when he met Kolbrun, missing

Ellidi—friend of Holberg, with him when he met Kolbrun, currently in prison for assault

Klara—Gretar’s sister

Theodora—Gretar’s mother

Eddi—Eva Lind’s dealer

The pathologist—who discovered Audur’s brain is missing

Hanna—the professor who helps him find Eydal

Eydal—the scientist who has Audur’s brain

Katrin—the other rape victim

Albert—Katrin’s husband

Einar—Katrin’s son

Einar’s daughter—died of the same disease as Audur

Ragnar—the head of forensics

Karitas—director of the Genetic Research Center