Lethal Vengeance - Characters

 

SPOILERS!!!

These are the characters in this novel for further reference:

Regular characters:

• Detective Chief Inspector Erika Foster is the main character. She is  a 50-year-old widow whose husband was killed in a drug raid that Erika led. Erika is passionate, with a strong sense of justice, but she can also be cold and rude. Yet, despite her flaws she is well-liked by her team. She is now working at Lewisham station.    In previous book Erika had an on-off relationship with her colleague, Peterson. What broke them was when James was shot and part of his stomach had to be removed. Erika felt guilty because it was her responsibility. James finally decided that they should just be friends. Then Peterson discovered he had a son he didn’t know about, and now he is happy with him and his ex-girlfriend.  With Paul Marsh, her former boss, she has a peculiar relationship and in a previous book they had a moment in which they started kissing passionately, but they eventually talked and said  that it wouldn’t happen again. In the last book she got reacquainted with her first boyfriend in Slovakia, Igor, and now they have a relationship. 
• Igor Muck (48) is Erika's boyfriend. He was her first boyfriend in Slovakia, and they got reacquainted when he was working for Argos  and delivered a bed and washing machine for her. Now he works for the Transport for London. Igor is divorced and has a child, Tom. When his ex-wife tells him that she is moving to Spain, Igor is upset, thinking that Tom would go with her. Yet, they decide that Tom would stay to finish his secondary education in his present school.
• DI Kate Moss is one of the two detectives Erika usually works with and her best friend. Moss is a lesbian and  is married to Celia and they have a child, Jacob. Kate is honest in her comments, cheerful and good fun.
• DI James Peterson is the other detective Erika works with.  Peterson has a dark episode in his life when his sister took her own life after being abused by a priest when she was a child. Peterson claimed to be in love with Erika, and he was patient with her, but when he was shot, something changed, and he and Erika broke up. Some weeks ago he discovered that he had a six-year-old son, who his ex-girlfriend hid from him. Now he is happy to have him in his life, and he and his ex-girlfriend got married and had another child. 
• Detective Constable John McGorry (28) is another officer in the unit. John is pleasant and talkative, which often drives Erika crazy, but she trusts him.  John has a girlfriend, Monica.
• Isaac Strong (50) is the police forensic pathologist. He and Erika are good friends. Isaac is gay and in a previous book his boyfriend was murdered, and he was even accused of his murder. Now Isaac is single, and he is one of the few people Erika trusts to talk about her personal problems.
• Commander Paul Marsh is  Erika’s superior.  Marsh and Erika first met when they both trained for the police, and Erika introduced him to his wife Marcie. Paul and Marcie separated for a while after she had an affair with a younger man, but in a previous book they got back together. Marsh made a pass at Erika in a previous and they kissed. Nothing happened because they were interrupted. Erika thinks that Paul has changed and he is too worried about politics rather than doing what is right.
• Constable Dahlia Beck is a police officer that is first at the scene when Lomas was found dead. Erika resented the fact that Dahlia called her superior Superintendent Fisk and she was removed from the case. When Jamie Teague is found dead, Dahlia is assigned to Erika's team, but Erika doesn't trust her. When Annabelle was arrested, Dahlia confesses that she and Fisk had an affair and her orders were to look out for anything connected to Lomas. At the end of the book Erika tells her that she will think whether she can stay in the unit or not.
• Sergeant Crane is an officer in Erika’s unit.
• Superintendent Melanie Hudson is Erika’s boss.
• Tom Muck is Igor's sixteen-year-old son. He and Erika get on well, and she has a morbid interest in learning about the murders Erika investigates. 
• Denise is Igor's ex-wife. She falls pregnant and decide to move to Spain with her partner. 
• Colleen Scanlan is the police media liaison officer.
• Kyle is James Peterson’s  son.
• Fran is Peterson’s wife. When they first were an item, they broke up six years ago, and she hid the fact that she was pregnant and had a son. Years later she contacted Peterson when she lost her job and returned from Germany where she had been all this time. Now they are married and have anotehr child.
• Marcie Marsh is Paul Marsh’s wife. Erika introduced them years ago, but there is no real friendship between her and Erika.  Marcie and Paul separated because she met a young man in her art classes and fell for him, but now they are back together. Marcie and her husband went through the worst situation parents could have when their daughters were kidnapped. Thankfully, the girls were rescued by Erika, and now Marcie looks up to Erika, who has become as a heroine for her.
• Edward Foster is Erika’s father-in-law. Edward initially blamed Erika for Mark’s death. Yet, the man had time to think things through and realised that Erika does not deserve his anger. Edward sounds like a good man, and I’m glad that Erika has someone to turn to. 
• Mark Foster was Erika’s husband. He died in a drug raid alongside other police officers, and since Erika was the one leading the operation, she was blamed for his death and the other officers’.
• Jerome Goodman is the drug dealer who caused the death of Erika’s husband and the other officers.
• Celia is Moss’s wife.
• Jacob is Celia and Moss’s son.
• Lenka is Erika’s sister. Her husband is into some illegal activities.
• Marek is Lenka’s husband. He claims to have an ice-cream parlor, but in reality he works for the Mafia.
• Karolina is Erika’s niece. 
• Jakob is Erika’s nephew. 
• Erika is Erika’s  niece, but everybody calls her Evka.

Other characters:

• Annabelle Wallis  is the murderer. She killed all the victims because she felt they deserved to die after the way they treated her or her friends. Annabelle was abused by her stepfather, who also beat up her mother. She killed him by pushing him out of the window. In the children's home she saw orderlies, Pipes and Sal, abuse her friends Zach and Casey, and they even killed Casey. And then she worked as an escort and Lomas and Teague were horrible to her. So she decided to kill all these people, leaving polaroid photos of them with her signature. She made a mistake when she left a glove behind when she killed Pipes, and that is how Erika found her. During the trial one of the witnesses died the night before, and it seems that Annabelle may go free.
• Neville Lomas is the conservative member of parliament who is found dead in an apartment. The bigwigs in the parliament try hard to conceal anything untoward about the death of Lomas. Annabelle killed him because he had beaten up black and blue, and the police did not do anything. 
• Jamie Teague (23) is a football player who was also murdered like Lomas. The reason why Annabelle killed was because he wouldn't stop even when she said no. 
• Terry DeVille (67) was another victim that Erika finds by checking the police records. Terry was in entertainment and photographed men naked and in compromising positions. Annabelle killed him because through him Zach got into drugs and died of an overdose. 
• Lewis Crowe, Pipes, was an orderly in the children's home where Annabelle grew up. He was cruel and abusive, and he helped his colleague Sal to hide the death of Casey. Annabelle killed him.
• Sal was the other orderly in teh children's home who was cruel. She killed Casey, Annabelle's friend, and then she and Pipes throw her body into the furnace. 
• Superintendent Dan Fisk is the officer that makes sure that Erika does not investigate Lomas's death. He was Dahlia's superior and lover, and he had orders to protect Lomas at all costs. 
• Ann Marie Ross is the cleaner who found the body of Neville Lomas. 
• Russell Milligan used to be DeVille's lover, and as he was homeless, he stayed at DeVille's, which is where Erika found him. He was a key witness as he knew that DeVille sold Annabelle the polaroid films that she used in his murders. The night before Annabelle's trial he was found dead in the bath. 
• Richard Gaynor is a chief whip in the Conservative party. Erika and Marsh are summoned to a meeting, and they are instructed not to reveal anything about Lomas. 
• Constable Glenn Constance was the other officer alongside Dahlia that are first to respond when Lomas is found dead. 
• Oliver Grant is the receptionist in the building where Lomax is found dead. 
• Felicity Brogues-Houghton is from Tom's school. She is quite opinionated and nosey. 
• Norbert Pope is the reception manager in Jamie Teague's building. 
• Janice Teague is Jamie's mother.
• Peter Teague is Jamie's father.
• Karen Teague (21) is Jamie's sister. She started an onlyfans site, which Erika thought was strange due to the circumstances of her brother's death. 
• Leon  Bromfield is one of the friends that Jamie went out with the night he was murdered. Leon had just had a baby, and he and his two friends went out to wet the baby's head.
• Finn Norton (24) is the other friend Jamie went out with that night. 
• Cheri Shelton is Jamie's football agent. 
• Jack Grovel was Jamie's solicitor. 
• Tulip Frost is the owner of the exclusive club where Jamie went ot the night he was murdered.
• Peter is the bar manager of he exclusive club where Jamie went ot the night he was murdered.
• Mac was Annabelle's stepfather who abused her and beat up Annabelle's mother. When he killed his wife, Annabelle saw him lean out of a window to hide something in the chimney, and she simply pushed him and he was killed.
• Bren was Annabelle's mother. 
• Rebecca REid was the woman who accused Jamie of abusing her but he was acquitted.
• Jessica Gold man is the make-up artist that provided Annabelle with wigs and dresses for the four girls who Annabelle took with her when she killed Jamie. As Jessica was the only one to have seen her face, she couldn't risk being recognised. 
• Fiona Watson is the Family Liaison Officer for the TEagues. 
• Rah Zahora was the owner of the costume hire company that Jessica hired the dresses and wigs for Annabelle and the other four girls. 
• Cruly Sue is a former prostitute that gives Erika information about some companion services.
• Daniel Blakson was a walker for escort services, and he was the first to give Erika a description of Annabelle. 
• Kirsty Vardy is one of the girls who were hired by Annabelle the night Jamie was murdered.
• Ella Berry was one of the girls that Annabelle hired. 
• Casey Silver was Annabelle's friend in the children's home. Sal killed her when she tried to fight her, and the woman hit her with a spade repeatedly. Annabelle kept her passport, and she tried to use the passport to leave the country.
• Zach Selby was Annabelle's friend in the children's home. After leaving the home, Zach went to drama school, and DeVille took him in. They became lovers, and he got him into drugs. Zach died of an overdose. 
• Valerie Drummond is a casting director who knew Zach and DeVille, and she also helped the police by describing Annabelle as she had met her at Zach's funeral.
• Dr Maurice Calderwood is the pathologist that replaces Isaac as those in power force Isaac to admit that he had made a mistake in his results of Lomas's postmortem.