These are the characters in the book for further reference

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REGULAR CHARACTERS

• Joyce Meadowcroft (77) is one of the members of the Thursday Murder Club. She joined after Penny, the creator of the club, was sent to the nursing home after her health declined. Joyce used to be a nurse and is widowed. She has a daughter, Joanna. Joyce is very sweet and has a very special way of seeing the world. Now Joyce has a dog, Alan, which she adores.
• Elizabeth Best (76) is another member of the Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth used to be of the secret service. Elizabeth is married to Stephen,who is showing signs of dementia. Elizabeth is very determined and sure of herself. Elizabeth was married before; her first husband was also a spy, Douglas, but he was killed recently. In this book Stephen confronts Elizabeth about what he has been suspecting for a long time, and Elizabeth has to admit that he is right and Stephen has dementia. Stephen does not want to become a burden or decline to become nothing, so he wants to die, and Elizabeth helps him to die. 
• Ibrahim Arif (80) is another member of the Thursday Murder Club. He is a psychiatrist. For a while he has been going to see Connie Johnson for therapy. In this book Ibrahim tells a new friend, Computer Bob, about the time when he was a student and was in love with Marius, another German student. Yet, Marius died, and he has never felt love again.  
• Ron Ritchie (75) is the fourth member of the Thursday Murder Club. Ron used to be a union activist, and now he is as belligerent as he used to be. He has a grown-up son and daughter, and a grandson, Kendrick. Ron and Ibrahim are very close friends. Ron is now in a relationship with Pauline, a make-up artist.
• PC Donna De Freitas (26) is the policewoman who the Thursday Murder Club become friendly with. Donna used to work in London, but left when her boyfriend dumped her even though she admits she wasn’t in love. Donna and Bogdan are now in a relationship.
• DCI Chris Hudson (51) is a detective who became friends with the the elderly people of the Thursday Murder Club.  Now Chris is dating Donna's mother, Patrice. 
• Bogdan Jankowski is a Polsih immigrant. He is the person who those in the Thursday Murder Club turn to when they need something, illegal or not. Bogdan and Stephen are friends  and they play chess together. Bogdan is with Elizabeth when Stephen kills himself. Bogdan is grieven for his friend after his death. Bogdan and Donna are in a relationship.
• Connie Johnson is a drug dealer who is in prison. . She knows that she is prison because Ron and Bogdan tricked her. So she swears to kill them when she is relased. Ibrahim regularly goes to see her  for therapy. Connie has a very comfortable life in prison, and she has all the comforts her money and influence buy her. We discover that Connie had Dom and Samantha Barnes killed because she wants the monopoly of heroin trade. 
• Alan is Joyce's dog.
• Stephen is Elizabeth’s husband, and he has been showing signs of dementia. Elizabeth is his second wife. Stephen confronts Elizabeth about his condition, and she has to admit that he has dementia. Stephen doesn't want to show his deterioration as the disease takes over his will. So he tells Elizabeth that he wants to die. Elizabeth assists her husband to die. 
• Bob Wittacker, Computer Bob, has become closer to the Thursday Murder Club, especially Ibrahim. He helps Ibrahim to ensnare the erson who cheated Mervyn out of his money.
• Patrice is Donna’s mother. He and Chris are dating. 
• Kendrick (8) is Ron's grandson. He is a lovely boy, intelligent and is good friends with Ibrahim. 
• Joanna Meadowcroft (52) is Joyce’s daughter. She runs a hedge fund. Joyce and Joanna often don't see eye to eye. Joanna is dating Scott, a football chairman.
• Scott is Joanna's boyfriend. He is a football chairman.
• Gerry was Joyce’s late husband.
• Mervyn Collins is the new neighbour in the village and Joyce takes a liking at him. He speaks very little and has a dog, Rosie. Mervyn tells Joyce and the others that he has a Lithanian sweetheart, Tatiana. The club realises that Mervyn is being cheated out of his money, so they help to unmask the conman and get him arrested. Mervyn doesn't seem to be too naive because even after this episode, he seems to be thinking about investing in a project that someone has told him about. 
• Pauline Jenkins is the make-up artist.  Pauline and Ron are now in a relationship.
• Viktor Illyich is a KGB agent who Elizabeth knew twenty years ago. After the advdenture in the previous book when Elizabeth was ordered to kill him, they are now in contact, and Elizabeth uses him when she needs intelligence.
• Jason Ritchie is Ron’s son. He is a boxer, and now that he is older, he appears in all kinds of reality shows. 
• Karen Playfair is the woman Jason is dating. She is the daughter of another pensioner living in Coopers Chase. She is an expert on computers.
• DI Terry Hallet is in Chris’s team. He is happily married and has four children.
• Anthony is the hairdresser who goes to Coopers Chase weekly to do the residents’ hair.
• Carlito is the driver of the minibus in Coopers Chase.
• Mark is the taxi driver that Ron and the others use when they can't take the minibus.
• Edwin Mayhew is a new neighbour in the village. 
• Suzi is Ron's daughter and Kendrick's mum.
• Danny is Ron's son-in-law
• Gordon Playfair owned a farm on the top of the hill, and he refused to sell his property to the developer, Ian, in the first book because he didn’t like him. After Ian’s death, Joanna made him an offer and he accepted, and now he is living in Coopers Chase.
• Bernard Cottle lived in Coopers Chase. His wife died some months ago and he felt her loss terribly. Joyce had a shining for him. He became a suspect in the first book when the murders happened. Bernard committed suicide and left a note to Joyce explaining that he did something wrong. He gave his daughter an urn with sand instead of his wife’s ashes, and he buried them under the bench in the cemetery. Then when the area was going to be developed, cement was spread there, and the ashes were inaccessible.
• Marius was Ibrahim's lover when they were young.
• Penny Gray and Elizabeth created the Thursday Murder Club aimed at discussing Penny’s old unresolved cases. Penny used to be a detective, but when her health declined, she was transferred to the nursing home. Elizabeth discovered that the person who killed Ian was Penny’s husband to protect her. The thing is that Penny killed the boyfriend of a murdered girl when there was no way to send him to prison. Then she put his body in one of the graves in the nuns’ cemetery. John discovered the truth when Penny got dementia and started to talk about the past, so when he learnt that they were going to dig up the cemetery, he knew he had to do something and killed Ian.
• John Gray was Penny’s husband. He killed Ian to protect his wife. When ELizabeth revealed what she knew, John helped Penny to die and he also killed himself.
• Ian Venthan (50) was the owner of the retirement village and wanted to develop the adjacent area including the former convent and the nuns’ cemetery. Ian was murdered during a protest from the residents against the desecration of the nuns’ cemetery in the first book.
• Emily was Stephen’s first wife.
• Carl is Donna’s ex-boyfriend.
  

CHARACTERS IN THIS NOVEL:

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• Kuldesh Sharwa is Stephen's friend and owns a shop in Brighton. In this book he is killed when some stranger asks him to keep a box for him. When he realises that the box is valuable, he contacts his friend Nina and Stephen. He and Stephen dig the box, and NIna, who realises the value of the box, kills him, thinking that the box could be the answer to her unhappiness with her life and job. 
• Tatiana/Jeremmy try to cheat Mervyn out of his money. Mervyn believes that he is in a relationship with Tatiana, who has sworn to come to live in England. Yet, the club can tell that this is a fraud and all Mervyn will get is being cheated out of his money. 
• Mitch Maxwell is the drug dealer who becomes desperate when the heroin left with Kuldesh is nowhere to be found. He discovers thanks to the Thursday Murder Club that the heroin is just an excuse and the box is worth a large amount of money. Joyce tells him that she threw away the box after she and the others dug it out, and Mitch goes to the dump where he thinks the box is. He dies there of a heart attack. 
• Lennie works for Mitch.
• Dom Holt works for Mitch. He is killed, and when Nina is arrested, the police think it was her who killed him. In reality, Collie Johnson got him killed as she wants to have the monopoly of the heroin trade. 
• Luca Buttaci is Mitch's partner. He was killed by Garth because he thought he had killed his wife. SIO Jill Regan tells the Thursday Murder Club that Luca was working for her. 
• Samantha Barnes is an art dealer. When she married her first husband, her business was above board, but he died. After that, she realised that she could make money by selling fake art works. Samantha then married Garth, a Canadian criminal. Samantha is also killed when Connie sent her killer. Yet, the police also think that her death is connected with Kuldesh's deah. 
• William was Samantha's late husband.
• Nina Mishra is the person Kuldesh contacted the day he died. She was the daughter of Kuldesh's friends, and she is a professor of archaelogy in Canterbury. Nina tells JOyce and the others that Kuldesh did call her but he didn't tell him much. Elizabeth discovers that Nina killed him for the valuable box, and she gets her arrested. 
• Professor Jonjo Mellor is Nina's boss, and he helps Elizabeth to ensare the killer. 
• Garth is Samantha's husband. He is a big man, and when Samantha is killed, he is angry and upset. He kills Luca Buttaci, thinking that he killed her. Garth helps the Thursday Murder Club to get Nina arrested for the death of Kuldesh, and then he runs away. 
• Senior Investigating Officer Jill Regan from the National Crime Agency is the detective that forces Donna and Chris to step down from the case. 
• Louise is the woman who runs the café next to Kuldesh's shop. Joyce talks to her, and she gives her the footage that her CCTV camera filmed. 
• Caroline is the woman who killed Tod and Samantha for Connie.