Character List for The Last Remains

Participants in the 2002 Field Trip

Leo Ballard—professor/tutor in archaeology at Cambridge’s St. Jude’s College

Michael Malone—aka Cathbad; a druid and a lab assistant at UNN; later, becomes a friend of Ruth Galloway

Emad Hussein—student studying with Ballard at Cambridge’s St. Jude’s College; later, an accountant

Emily Pickering—20-year-old archaeology student studying with Ballard at Cambridge’s St. Jude’s College; the corpse at the heart of the book

Amber Fletcher-Ellis—student studying with Ballard at Cambridge’s St. Jude’s College; later, a solicitor, married to Westbourne

Thomas Westbourne—student studying with Ballard at Cambridge’s St. Jude’s College; later a barrister, married to Fletcher-Ellis

Mark Oldburg—a junior lecturer at Cambridge’s St. Jude’s College

University of North Norfolk (UNN)

Dr. Ruth Galloway—the book’s protagonist; an instructor and head of the Archaeology Department

David Brown—faculty member in the Archaeology Department, from Sweden

Phil Trent—former Archaeology Department head and Galloway’s ex-boss at UNN

Shona MacLean—head of the English Department and a long-time friend of Galloway; in a relationship with Trent

Becky Smallwood—UNN branch officer of the University & College Union

Colin Bland—UNN vice chancellor

Jeanne Hanisko—an American, currently teaching at Cambridge, who is serving as the “outside” member of the review panel for Galloway’s PhD students

Police

Superintendent Jo Archer—head of Norfolk Police; Harry Nelson’s boss

DCI Harry Nelson—head of Norfolk’s Serious Crimes Unit; Galloway’s long-time lover and father of her daughter, Kate

DS Tanya Fuller—officer on Nelson’s team; lead on the case

DC Tony Zhang—officer on Nelson’s team

DC Bradley Linwood—officer on Nelson’s team

DI Dave “Cloughie” Clough—former member of Nelson’s team; now head of Cambridge CID

DC Lucy (Downey) Vanstone—member of Clough’s team on loan to Nelson; also, has a long-ago history with Galloway and Nelson

Galloway/Nelson Friends & Family

Kate Galloway—12-year-old daughter of Ruth Galloway and Harry Nelson

Zoe—aka Dawn; Ruth Galloway’s half-sister (same mother) who was given up for adoption at birth and who has fairly recently (in a previous book) found Ruth

Judith “Judy” Johnson—Cathbad’s “life partner” and mother of Michael and Miranda (also a DI on Nelson’s team, although not part of the case because of her relationship with Cathbad)

Michael—Cathbad’s 9-year-old son with Judy

Miranda—Cathbad’s 6-year-old daughter with Judy

Maddie Henderson—Cathbad’s 27-year-old daughter from a previous relationship (with Delilah Henderson)

Erik Anderson—Ruth Galloway’s tutor at university and a former friend of Cathbad; now deceased

Michelle Nelson—Harry Nelson’s not-quite-ex-wife

Laura Nelson—Nelson’s 27-year-old daughter with Michelle

Rebecca Nelson—Nelson’s 25-year-old daughter with Michelle

George Nelson—Nelson’s 5-year-old son with Michelle

Connected to the Bakery & Café/Antique Shop/Red Lady Tea Rooms

Gary Bright—in charge of the demolition/renovation that uncovers the “last remains”

Peter Webster—owner of the Green Child Café in 2002; now deceased

Arabella Webster—Paul’s wife; now in a care facility with dementia

Gaia Webster—one of the Webster daughters, about the same age as Pickering; she also studied archaeology with Ballard at Cambridge’s St. Jude’s College

Freya Webster—the other Webster daughter; had left school at 16 to work in café and knew Cathbad and Pickering, who hung out there

Character List for Small Mercies

South Boston “Southie” Characters

Mary Patricia “Mary Pat” Fennessey—the book’s protagonist, a native “Southie” and “tough Irish broad”

Julia “Jules” Fennessey—Mary Pat’s daughter; about to start her senior year of high school and missing

Noel Fennessey—Mary Pat’s son; dead from a drug overdose five years earlier

Kenneth “Kenny” Fennessey—aka Ken Fen; Mary Pat’s second husband who has recently left Mary Pat

Dukie Shefton—Mary Pat’s first husband, long deceased; an independent operator who still had to pay a percentage of his take to Butler for “protection”

Anthony “Tony Chap” Chapstone—Dukie’s (and eventually Mary Pat’s) lawyer

Louise “Weezie” Flanagan—Mary Pat’s deceased mother

“Big Peg” McAuliffe—one of Mary Pat’s sisters; married to Terry McAuliffe

“Little Peg”—Big Peg’s eldest daughter who’s the same age as Jules

Ronald “Rum” Collins—purportedly Jules’s boyfriend (as a cover for Toomey)

Brenda Morello—Jules’s best friend since second grade

Marty Butler—leader of a Southie “protection” crew

Brian Shea—top organizer/enforcer in Butler’s crew

Donna (Dougherty) Shea—Brian Shea’s wife; an old childhood friend of Mary Pat’s

George Dunbar—known drug dealer and Morello’s purported boyfriend (as a cover for Butler)

Lorraine Dunbar—George’s mother and Marty Butler’s girlfriend

Terry “Terror Town” McAuliffe—part of Butler’s crew; married to Big Peg

Frankie “Tombstone” Toomey—the “killer of killers” in Butler’s crew; Jules’s “real” boyfriend (despite being married with four kids)

Agnes Toomey—Toomey’s wife

Tommy Gallagher—bartender at the Fields of Athenry, a bar that serves as Butler’s stronghold

“Weed”—part of Butler’s crew

Larry Foyle—part of Butler’s crew

Lou Shapiro—murder victim from a few years earlier with no next of kin but a lucrative estate of businesses that everyone assumes Butler owns

SWAB Sisters—a group of women who belong to the protest group Southie Women Against Busing; the leader is Carol Fitzpatrick, and Mary Pat was apparently a member

Meadow Lane Manor

Sister Fran—one of the nuns at Meadow Lane Manor, an elder care facility where Mary Pat works as a hospital aide

Calliope Williamson—aka Dreamy; a co-worker of Mary Pat’s

Augustus “Auggie” Williamson—Calliope’s 20-year old son who’s found dead at Columbia Station (a commuter rail station that was renamed JFK/UMass Station in 1982)

Reginald Williamson—Calliope’s husband and Auggie’s father

Dottie Lloyd—co-worker of Mary Pat’s; their relationship is adversarial

The Cops

Detective Sergeant Michael “Bobby” Coyne—lead detective investigating the death of Auggie Williamson

Detective Vince Pritchard—Coyne’s partner on the case

Special Agent Giles Stansfield—FBI agent who may or may not be in Butler’s pocket

Drew Curran—medical examiner

Seamus Riordan—tower crane operator who is one of the witnesses at Columbia Station questioned by Coyne and Pritchard

Brendan Coyne—Bobby’s nine-year-old son

Shannon Coyne—Bobby’s ex-wife and Brendan’s mother

Carmen Davenport—Coyne’s new girlfriend, whom he meets at a random Narcotics Anonymous meeting, although he’s actually met and arrested her before

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