The Last Supper - Characters

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SPOILERS!!

These are the characters for futher reference:

Regular characters (or relevant in the series continuity):

• Lara Stone is the main character. She is a journalist and used to work for the "Chronicle" but now she is a free-lance investigative journalist. Lara left the Chronicle  when one of her stories triggered in a libel lawsuit which the newspaper lost. Lara's parents died when she was young, so she grew up with her uncle, aunt and cousin, and she was left enough money to live comfortably for the rest of her life. In the last novel Lara got a note, telling her that her father was alive. Lara's best friend is Alex, and everybody seems to think that they should be together as a couple,  but Lara is reluctant to take a step towards romance fearing to lose her friend. 
• Alex Ford is the deputy editor in the Chronicle. He is also Lara's best friend. Everybody thinks that they should be together romantically, and Alex is relly attracted to her, but like Lara he feels afraid to lose her friend if something romantic happened between them..  Alex dated Alicia, a ambitious woman, for a while, but she cheated on him with Charlie, Lara's cousin. 
• Stella Harris is Lara's assistant. When the investigation department was disbanded, Stella started working at a café owned by a family friend. But then she started to work for Lara free-lance.  Stella is determined, funny and loyal. She grew up in Scotland, and her background is not privileged like Lara's. 
• Darius Allen is the editor in chief of the Chronicle.
• DCI Ian Fox is the dtective who Lara has known through her job for years. 
• Nicholas Avery is the chairman in the Chronicle and Lara's uncle. 
• Olivia Avery is Lara's aunt
• Charlie Avery is Lara's cousin. He has a reputation as a womaniser. He and Alicia had an affair behind Alex's back, and when Alex discoverde the affair, Charlie admitted that the thing with Alicia started as something physical, but he then discovered that he really likes her. 
• Alicia Croft used to be Alex's girlfriend, but they broke up when Alex discovered that she had cheated on him. 
• Terry Ford is Alex's father. He used to have a newsagent's and that is the reason why Alex grew up loving journalism. 
• David Avery is Lara's father. Until now Lara thought he was dead, but at the end of the last book she got a note telling her that her father was alive. 
• Ramona Avery is Lara's late mother.
• Sandrine Legard was Lara's best friend alongside Alex. The three of them met at university. Sandrine worked for Le Figaro in Paris, and in London she was killed. Everybody thought that she had committed suicide, but Lara started investigating and discovered that she had been killed.
• Celine is Alex's PA. 
• Lynda Brett is a new reporter at the Chronicle

Characters in this novel:

• Viggo Widlund is the chef in the resort. It is his wild that brings success to the resort. Then he decides that he needs to leave as he is suffering from anxiety. Then the night he announces his decision he is stabbed to death.
• Petra Summers is the sous chef in the resort. Petra and Viggo met when they were working together in Europe. They were hired by Martin, and the secret is that the cooking was actually Petra's doing. When Viggo decides to leave, she is angry, especially as Martin refuses to replace him with her. Petra is arrested for his murder, but thankfully, Lara manages to clear her name. 
• Martin Svenson is the owner of the resort. He and Viggo had an agreement that if either of them decided to quit, there wouldn't be a replacement.
• Ana Svenson is Martin's wife. She and Viggo were having an affair, and when she learnt that Viggo was leaving, she realised that it was the end of her life as she knew it. The resort was everything to her, so when Viggo refused to reconsider his decision, she killed him in a fit of anger. Ana was arrested when she and Martin were trying to run away.
• Kat Mikaelson is the guest manager and Theo's wife. She has been unhappy for years as she feels living such an isolated life is not what she wanted when she married Theo. So she starts divorce procedures.. When Theor discovers what she has been doing behind his back, he even tries to blackmail her into staying. They finally manage to talk, and Kat discovers that Theo feels beholden to the place because he feels guilty for his father's death. The day he died, he was supposed to be looking for him, but he decided to go to a meeting with a hotel managing director. Then he found his father dead at the foot of the stairs, and that has tortured him all these years. 
• Theo Mikaelson is Kat's husband. His plans for the resort are ruined when Viggo decides to leave. Things go from bad to worse when he discovers that Kat wants to divorce him. Yet, they eventually manage to have a heart-to-heart conversation and it seems they can fix things. 
• Dr Patrik Green is a plastic surgeon, one of the guests at the resort.
• Coulson Miller is Dr Green's partner.
• Justin Blake is a famous pop singer and Viggo's friend. Viggo discovers that he is using drugs and takes the heroin from him and throws it away. After that, Justin has to go through withdrawal symptoms, and he has to tell his girlfriend, Emily. She helps him to go through it, and he eventually proposes to her. In the end he decides to leave the pop band that introduced him to drugs, and he thinks he can try to get his old band together.
• Emily Frances is a supermodel and Justin's girlfriend. It is Emily who finds two mobile phones at the spa, containing messages from the conversation between Ana and Viggo the night he was killed.
• Josh Holmberg (19) is the young kitchen hand. He admired Viggo and kept stalking him, photographing him all the time. It is thanks to his photographs that Lara and Alex discover that he and Ana were having an affair. 
• Kriminal Inspector Sonia Lindhart is the detective investigating Viggo's death.
• Sergeeant Koln is Sonia Lindhart's partner. 
• Stuart is the boucher in the resort. He is from Scotland and he is sweet on Petra.
• Michel Garnier is the chocolatier in the resort.
• Connie and Graham Edwards are a elderly couple who are guests at the resort.
• Miles Namato is a chef who is another guest. He doesn't like Viggo and wants to prove that he is nothing but a fake.
• Nami Falk is Miles's partner.
• Kenneth and Serena Roscoe are Martin's friends.
• Kjell Norberg is a neighbouring farmer who Viggo stayed with when he was suffering from an anxiety attack.