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
