Bleeding Heart Yard - Characters

 SPOILERS!!!

These are the characters of the novel for future reference:

Regular characters

• DI Harbinder Kaur (38) is the main character in this series. Harbinder is of Indian origin and is gay. Harbinder used to live with her very traditional parents, but after getting a promotion, she moves to London and shares the flat wit two other women, Jeanne and Mette. Harbinder feels attracted to Mette, and at the end of the book they start going out together, and she even introduces her to her family and friends. In London she leads her unit and gets on well with her new colleagues even though she misses her old life. At the end of the book she feels she has become aprt of her new environment when her colleagues give her the nickname of 'Suzy' after a rock star. 
• Mette is one of Harbinder's flatmates. She is a Danish architect, and at the end of the book she and Harbinder become a couple.
• DS Kim Manning is Harbinder's colleague. She is married and has children. Her nickname is Blondie because she used to have blonde hair but now she dyes her hair red.
• Cassie Fitzherbert (37) is one of the police officers in Harbinder's unit. Cassie has always believed that he killed a young man who studied in her school twenty-one years ago, but he has never told anyone. In a school reunion one of her friends is killed, and that opens a can to the past. When at the end of the book she discovers that her husband killed the young man she had always thought he had killed and two of her friends, she realises that this is the end of her marriage. Her nickname in the station is Smoothie because she loves smoothies.
• DS Jake Barber is another colleague of Harbinder's. His nickname is Anton because he comes from the North like Ant and Deck.
• DC Tory Hamilton-Fletcher is in Harbinder's unit. Harbinder does not like her.
• Jeanne is one of Harbinder's flatmates. She is a Scottish teacher who is always complaining about her pupils. She has a boyfriend.
• Helen is the Family Liaison Officer.
• Alice Hunter is the pathologist.
• James McIntosh (Mac) is the chief forensic officer.
• Freya is Harbinders PA.
• Trish is the civilian officer responsible for analysing CCTV.
• Laura is the Civilian data analyst.
• Natalka Kolisnyk (28)  is Harbinder's friend. She appeared in the last book, and she investigated a murder. She started a detective agency, and she is Benedict's partner.
• Benedict Cole is an ex-monk who runs a café and is one of Harbidner's friend. He and Natalka are a couple
• Edwin Fitzgerald (81) worked with Natalka and Benedict to investigate the murder in the last book.  Edwin is a retired BBC radio presenter. Edwin is also gay, and fondly remembers his past lovers. 
• Bibi Kaur is Harbinder’s mum. Bibi is warm and funny, and she is a real mother hen, cooking her traditional Indian recipes and feeding anybody who drops by her place.

• Deepak Kaur is Harbinder’s father. He has a shop who he and his eldest son run. The shop is below his home.
• Lucy Fitzherbert (12) is Cassie's daughter.
• Sam Fitzherbert (10) is Cassie's son.
• DS Neil Winston used to be Harbinder’s colleague. He is married and has a child, and now Harbinder misses her.
• Malcolm Manning is Kim's husband.

Characters who may return to the series:

• DI Donna Brice used to be Harbinder’s boss.
• Clare Cassidy (48) is a  good friend of Harbinder's. She is an English teacher in a secondary school and is dating Henry, an English professor at Cambridge.
• Georgie Newton (17) is Clare’s daughter.
• Lily Winston is Neil’s daughter.
• Kelly Winston is Neil’s wife.
• Kush Kaur is Harbinder’s eldest brother.
• Hakim Kaur is Kush’s son and Harbinder’s nephew.
• Abheid Kaur is Harbinder’s other brother.
• Alisha Kaur (8) is Harbinder’s niece.
• Kiaan Kaur (5) is Harbinder’s nephew
• Cara Kaur is Abheid’s wife

Characters in this book:

• Pete Fitzherbert (42) is the murderer. He is Cassie's husband. They went to the same school, but he was two years older. They only met and fell in love after university when they ran into each other in a gym. Pete has a secret as he killed David Moore, the young man who raped Cassie. Recently he killed Gary when he discovered he had killed David, and he also murdered Henry because he also discovered the truth. 
• Anna Vance (38) was a student in the school but she was different as her family had no family. She grew up with her single mother and sister. Anna was in love with Chris, and the day David Moore died, he left her. Anna lives in Italy where she teaches English. She goes to the reunion, and she and Chris rekindled their relationship and at the end of the book she decides to stay for a while after her mother dies.
• David Moore is the young student who the group of friends intended to give him a fight when he raped Cassie and tried it with Anna. David died, and Cassie always thought she had killed him. Actually, it was Pete who murdered him. 
• Garfield Rice (Gary) (39) is the MP who is killed during the reunion because he discovers who killed David Moore. Gary is a conservative politician even though years ageo he was a liberal. In school Gary dated Cassie, but he left her and dated Izzy instead. Recently Izzy and Gary met again and started an affair. They intended to tell their respective spouses, but then Gary was murdered. 
• Henry Steep (39) also went to the school. Henry is also murdered because he disocvers the truth about the death of David Moore. Henry is gay and was married.
• Sonoma Davids (39) is the headteacher in the school, and she was a student there twenty-one years ago. 
• Star Vance is Anna's mum. She has cancer and Anna looks after her when she returns home for the reunion. Star dies shortly afterwards.
• Dr Aisha Mitri (39) was in the reunion and examined the body of Gary.
• Archie Flowers was the deputy head of the schoolj.
• Sophie is Anna's sister. She is married and has children
• Kris Foster (39) is a pop start who was also in the reunion. He and Anna were in love in the past, and now they have rekindled their love. 
• Izzy Istar (Isabelle) (39) was also a student at the school and now is an actress. She was in love with Gary. Izzy is married and has a daughter, Anna. 
• Paula Rice is Garfield's wife.
• Deborah Green is Garfield's agent.
• Anna West is Izzy's daughter.
• Oliver West is Izzy's husband. He is a famous actor.
• Arthur Moore is David's father. He also lost his wife Barbara a year after the death of their son. Cassie feels sorry for him and keeps sending him Christmas cards.
• Stephen Hill is Henry's husband.
• DI Daniel AKinyeni is the officer who is called to the scene when Henry is found dead.
• Siobhan used to be married to Kris.
• Linden Gray is Kris's lawyer.

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