The Hallmarked Man - Characters

 

SPOILERS!!!

These are the characters in the novel for further reference:

Regular characters that may appear in later books:

• Cormoran Strike (42) is a private detective. He used to be in the army, but he left  when he lost a leg as a consequence of a bomb blast in Afghanistan. He uses a prosthetic leg, which often gives him problems when he has been on his feet for too long.  Cormoran also has a very colourful background. His father is a famous singer, who has hardly come into contact with him,  and his mother was a groupie. His mother went from boyfriend to boyfriend, from squat to squat, and she died of an overdose, but in a previous book we learnt that Cormoran has always thought that his mother’s second husband killed her. Cormoran’s only steady background was when his uncle Ted and Aunt Joan took him and his half-sister Lucy in. In his personal life Cormoran had a complicated relationship with Charlotte Campbell. They broke up when she told him that she had got pregnant but got rid of the child. It is not clear whether this was true or not, because Charlotte was a born liar. Three weeks after their break up Charlotte announced that she was engaged to an old boyfriend, so Cormoran thought that she and the new man were already seeing each other behind his back. Charlotte got married, and had twins,but then she kept sending Cormoran texts, especially when she was  in a mental home. Cormoran saved her when she overdosed.  Charlotte eventually divorced Jago, and in the last book after pestering Cormoran, with phone calls, she took an overdose and killed herself.  Cormoran has feelings for Robin, and in this book he finally told her after trying to do so several times, but she did not take it well. 
• Robin Ellacott (32) is Cormoran’s partner. She is from Yorkshire and is divorced from Matthew, after she discovered he had been cheating on her. Robin started to work for Cormoran as a temp while she was trying to find a proper job, but then Robin refused a better job and salary because she wanted to work as a private detective. That was what created problems with Matthew, who did not understand her point of view. She eventually told Cormoran that she was committed to work and wanted to be more than a receptionist, and he agreed to pay for some training for her. Now they are partners in the agency. Robin has strong feelings for Cormoran, but she refuses to acknowledge them. Now Robin is dating DCI Ryan Murphy and in this book she had an ectopic pregnancy. She was told that because of being raped at the age of 19 her fallopian tubes are damaged and she can't have a child naturally. When Cormoran speaks about his feelings for her, she first thinks he has an ulterior agenda and then she gets angry because she thinks he had time to tell her before. 
• DCI Ryan Murhpy is the detective who Robin is dating. He is an ex-alcoholic. Ryan is certain that he wants to be with Robin, and he presses her to buy a home together. However, when Robin discovers that he has started to drink again after some difficult stress at work, she tells him that she won't leave him but they need to postpone the idea of living together. When Robin finds a ring among Ryan's things, she knows that he wants to propose, and when he tells her to celebrate his birthday at the Ritz, she is certain that he will propose then. Before leaving to meet Ryan at the Ritz, Cormoran declares his love for her and then Robin goes, but we are left there, without learning what has happened at the Ritz. 
• Sam Barclay is the agency’s longest-serving subcontractor. Barclay is Scottish.
• Pat Chauncey (68) is the agency’s office manager. She and Cormoran have a rocky relationship. She is married and even has a great granddaughter. Pat confesses that she lied when she first got the job, and she is actually 68 and not 58. 
• Midge (Michelle Greenstreet) is a subcontractor. She used to be in the police and recently she broke up with her partner, Beth. In this book she got friendly with a client, Tasha, which annoys Cormoran. At the end of the book she and Tasha are an item.
• DI Eric Wardle is the detective that Cormoran has often worked with. Wardle confesses to Cormoran that he is off work because he is depressed. His brother died and his wife left him. When he tells Cormoran that he is considering leaving the met, Cormoran offers him a job. Wardle accepts the job, and he is now working at the agency.
• Dev Shah is another subcontractor in the agency. He was a met officer and Robin calls him the most handsome men in the agency. Dev lets himself be influenced by Kim's opinion and considers leaving the agency, but when he realises that he has been a fool to believe Kim, he apologises to Cormoran. 
• Shanker is a petty criminal who Cormoran uses as an informer. Cormoran and Shanker share some history. Cormoran’s mother found Shanker years ago in a bad state, so she took him to the squat and treated him as if he were a nephew or a new son. So Shanker spent long periods with Leda and Cormoran in his youth. Cormoran knows that he can trust Shanker to bring him the information he needs, but he also knows that having the chance, Shanker would rob him of every penny.
• Lucy is Cormoran’s half-sister. She is the only relative Cormoran has a connection with. Lucy is married and has three children. 
• Jonny Rokeby is Cormoran’s famous father. He has never cared for Cormoran, and they have seen each other only twice, and both times were a disappointment for Cormoran. Cormoran goes to see him to ask for a favour because he needs a good lawyer to fight Culpepper. Cormoran is surprised because he likes him better than he thought, and at the end of their encounter he begrudgingly agrees to meet him for a drink sometime.
• Fergus Robertson is the journalist who Cormoran helps with information for his articles. 
• Linda Elacott is Robin’s mother. She disapproves of her daughter's profession and dislikes Cormoan.
• Michael Elacott is Robin’s father.  
• DS Vanessa Ekweski is Wardle’s partner. Robin is a good friend of hers, and she is now pregnant.
• Martin Elacott is Robin’s second brother. He has always been insecure about his ventures. In this book he is in a relationship with Carmen and they have a baby, who is born with a problem. 
• Carmen is Martin's girlfriend. They have a rocky relationship.
• Dirk is Martin and Carmen's baby son. vc
• Stephen Elacott is Robin’s eldest brother
• Jonathan Elacott is Robin’s youngest brother. He graduated from university and is working in a brand management consultancyh in Manchester. 
• Jenny Elacott is Stephen’s wife. She is a vet. They have a daughter, and in this book they have a baby boy who they call Barnaby. 
• Barnaby Elacott is Stephen and Jenny's baby son. 
• Annabel Marie Elacott is Stephen and Jenny’s daughter.
• Dominic Culpepper is a journalist that starts publishing articles against Cormoran when the agency discovers that his wife is cheating on him.
• Valentine Longcaster is Charlotte's stepbrother and Decima's brother. He is an stylist and he and Charlotte were very close.
• Sacha Legard is Charlotte's half-brother. He is a famous actor. Sacha was Rupert's cousin.
• Tara is Charlotte's mother.
• Ilsa Herbert is Nick’s wife and Cormoran’s friend. She and her husband met thanks to Cormoran. Nick was the friend Cormoran had in London and Ilsa went to school with Cormoran in Cornwall. Ilsa is a lawyer. Nick and Ilsa tried to have a child for years an had several miscarriages.Now they have finally a child. 
• Nick Herbert is a friend of Cormoran’s. He is a doctor (gastroentereologist)
• Benjamin Herbert is Isa and Nick's baby.
• Jack (12) is one of Lucy and Greg’s child and Cormoran’s nephew. Jack is actually Cormoran’s favourite nephew.
• Gerry is Prudence's son.
• Declan is Prudence's husband.
• Sylvie is Prudence's daughter.
• Prudence Donleary is Cormoran’s half-sister. Cormoran gets to meet her and they start having a relationship. Prudence is a therapist.
• Adam is Cormoran’s youngest nephew. Cormoran does not like him either.
• Luke is Cormoran’s nephew. Cormoran does not like him as he thinks the boy is a little bully.
• Greg is Lucy’s husband. Cormoran thinks he is an idiot.
• Charlotte Campbell was Cormoran’s fiancée and in the last book she killed herself. She was  beautiful and well-off. The woman, though, was twisted in her personality. While they were dating, Charlotte kept lying to Cormoran, and he forgave her all the time, but when she told him that she got pregnant and had an abortion, he couldn’t put up with her any longer.  Cormoran broke up with her. Then she got engaged to someone else and married him and had his children.. After her divorce she kept bothering Cormoran with phone calls. Strike kept ignoring the calls, and the night she overdosed she left three messages in his voicemail. 
• Uncle Ted Nancarrow (80) was Cormoran’s mother’s brother, and he and his wife took Cormoran and Lucy in when he found the children in a terrible squat. He lost his wife and he was diagnosed with dementia. In this book Ted dies after suffering a stroke. 
• London Dormer was Charlotte's boyfriend. He was a rich hotelier, but they had a terrible row that reached the press. 
• James Jago Ross is the man Charlotte married and divorced. He was her first boyfriend, who she left for Cormoran. 
• Mitch Patterson is the man in charge of the rival agency. Mich is arrested when it is discovered that he bugged the office of a lawyer. He is given a two-year sentence.
• James Ross is Charlotte's son
• Amelia Ross is Charlotte's daughter. 
• Spanner is the IT specialist Cormoran turns to when he needs help with technical things. 
• Matthew Cunliffe was Robin’s husband. He didn’t like her working for Cormoran. He was really annoying and too chauvinistic in his views about Robin and her job. Shorlty after the honeymoon, Robin realised that she did not love Matthew when she discovered that he had stopped Cormoran from contacting her, but she didn’t leave him then because Matthew got sick. However, when she found an earring in her bed, she discovered that Matthew had been cheating on her with Sarah, a friend. After they separated, Matthew gave her a hard time, making divorce proceedings difficult.Matthew is married to Sarah and they have a child, and she is expecting a second child. 
• Sarah Cunliffe is Matthew's current wife. She was  the woman Matthew cheated on Robin with. Robin always knew that Sarah would like to steal Matthew from her. Before her wedding Robin discovered that Matthew slept with Sarah when Robin was fighting her agoraphobia after being raped, and that was why she broke up with him for a while. AFter their marriage, Matthew cheated on her with Sarah once again, and they got divorced. Matthew and Sarah are now married and they have a child and expecting another.
• Dave Polworth (42) is Cormoran’s friend in Cornwall. They have been friends since they were at school together. Dave is married and has two children.
• Penny Polworth is Dave Polworth’s wife.
• April Wardle is Chris Wardle’s ex-wife. 
• Al (Alexander) Rokeby is Cormoran’s half-brother. He and Cormoran became friendly when Cormoran was in hospital after the bomb, and Al went to visit him
• Aunt Joan Nancarrow was Uncle Ted’s wife. She died in a previous book.
• Leda Strike was Cormoran’s mother. She overdosed when Cormoran was 20. When she was forty, she met a man in his twenties, Jeff Whittaker, and after a whirlwind romance, she got pregnant and they married. Leda had a baby boy, but then she died. Jeff was charged with her death as his alibi aroused suspicion, but he was acquitted.
• Eddie Rokeby is another half-brother of Cormoran’s. He has little interest in Cormoran.
• Angel is Shanker's stepdaughter, who is very sick. 
• Switch is Strike's half brother by his mother's second husband. 
• Amelia Crichton is Charlotte's sister.
• Dennis Chauncey is Pat's husband. He is a breeder of pigeous.
• Rhoda is Pat's daughter
• Nina Nascelles had an affair with Cormoran, and she goes to Culpepper to tell him about Cormoran being a pig.
• Tilly is Pat's great granddaughter. 
• Alyssa is Shanker's girlfriend.
• Susan Iverson is a officer in the met and had a grope with Murphy years ago when he was drunk. He seems to be smitten with him, but at the end of the book she and Wrdle are dating. 

Characters in this case:

• Decima Mullins (38) is the woman who hires the agency because she wants them to find out that the body found in a silver vault is her boyfriend. Decima is certain that Rupert is dead, so he wants to have confirmation. Decima is a cook of a prestigious restaurant and rich. Decima has given birth to a baby, Leon. 
• Rupert Fleetwood was Decima's boyfriend. They met when he started working for her father in his club as a waiter. Then he fled, and Decima thought that he was dead. Robin and Cormoran discover that Rupert went to Tara, Charlotte's mother, to sell her the silver ship that he stole from Dino, and then Tara got him a job in a hotel in Sardinia. When Robin goes to talk to him, he says that he loves Decima but he discovered that he and Decima are half-siblings and that is whey he left. When Robin says that Decima has a child, he decides to call her and they are going to arrange how to look after the baby together.
• Ian Griffith was Tyler's neighbour and he turns out to be the killer. He used to be a lorry driver in Europe and he and his friend Todd kidnapped and abused women, and that is what they still do with some men who he can manipulate. Tyler suspected something and he intended to make money so that he and Chloe could run away together. Yet, Griffiths killed him to shush him. 
• Tyler Powell is one man that is considered as the possible identity of the man. At the end of the book we learn that he is actually the body. He was killed by Todd and Grifftths because he had discovered that Griffiths had a lot to hide. 
• Niall Semple is another man who could be the body. He is an ex-paratrooper with mental health problems. Cormoran discovers that he killed himself. 
• Lord Oliver Branfoot is a powerful man who cooperates with Culpepper against Cormoran. Cormoran discovers that he uses porn actors and films them with drunk men and women while he hides behind a two-way mirror.
• Larry McGee is the delivery man who delivered the silver that day. He was sacked after certain suspicions raised that he was a thief. Larry and Todd cooperated.
• Charlie Carter was Larry's boss.
• Ralph Lawrence is a MI5 agent who tries to stop Cormoran from investigating Niall Semple.
• Danny the Lion is a pop star who Branfoot used for his shenanigans. When he felt threatened, he up and went to Sark, his home town, where Cormoran and Robin found him, and they convinced him to talk about what had happened with Brandfoot.
• Sapphire Neagle is a girl who Oz contacted and is missing. At the end of the book Cormoran finds him in a basement in Griffith's house.
• Tish Benton is Zac's 
• Lion is Decima and Rupert's baby boy. 
• Jason Knowles is first thougth to be the man found in the vault. He is a criminal. But later it was found out that he was killed but his body is somewhere else.
• Zac Lorimer was Rupert's flatmate and a drug-dealer was after him. When he leaves for South Africa, the drug dealer started to pester Rupert, and that is why Decima thought that Rupert was killed. 
• Dredge is the drug dealer who was pestering Rupert for the money Zac owed him. Rupert gave him two thousand pounds when he sold the silver ship.
• Anjelica Wallner is Rupert's aunt. He grew up in Switzerland where his aunt and uncle lived. When Cormoran talks to her, the woman is not forthcoming and keeps saying that Rupert is in New York. 
• Albie Simpson-White (24) is Rupert's friend. They worked at the restaurant together and now he is working at Harrod's. 
• Kim Cochran is the agency's latest subcontractor. Kim bluntly tries to seduce Cormoran and when Cormoran bluntly refuses her, she hands in her resignation. Then she joins the agency one of Patterson's agents have created. She also goes to one of the men intent to ruin Cormoran's reputation (Lord Brandfoot) and leaks information to him.
• Farah Navavi used to work for Patterson and now she has her own agency, and she hires Kim.
• Plug is a man who the agency is investigating, and they discover that he uses dangerous dogs in illegal fights. The man's uncle hired the agency because Plug was not only abusive to his mother but was taking her money.
• Kenneth Ramsay is the owner of the silver shop.
• DCI Malcom Truman is the officer who investigated the body found in the vault and identified it as Knowles. When Cormoran starts investigating, he discovers that Truman reached that conclusion to protect the freemasons.
• Graham Hardacre was in the military with Strike. He is a freemason.
• Jim Todd is the cleaner in the silver shop. Cormoran and Robin discover that he is a pervert and has a lot to hid. The man is killed alongside his mother because he was part of the ring led by Griffiths.
• Pamela Dullen-Driscol is the shop's manager and Kenneth Ramsay's sister-in-law.
• Dino Longcaster is Decima's father and Rupert's godfather. Dino used to be married to Tara. 
• Jade Semple is Niall's wife. She thought that her husband had left him for another woman.
• Sir Daniel Gayle is the retired commissioner who leaked information to Decima about the details of the man in the vault.
• William Wright is the name the assistant gave when he was hired in the silver shop. 
• Bijou Watkins is a young lawyer who Cormoran meets at the christening of Ilsa and Nick's son, and he has a one-night stand with her. Then she keeps pestering her, and through this brief liaison he finds his name in the press because this woman is in a relationship with a rich lawyer. Cormoran is angry and tells her to leave him alone, and Bijou confesses she is pregnant with her lover's child. In this book Cormoran is in trouble as the lawyer wants to issue an injunction because he is not sure Bijou's child is his. So Cormoran has to take a DNA test, and he confirms that he is not the child's fahter.
• Tasha Mayo is an actress who hired the agency because some men were stalking her, and Cormoran discovered that the two men want to kidnap her. Tasha and Midge became an item at the end of the case but in this book they split up.
• Andrew Honbold is the lawyer who was Bijou's lover. His wife left him when she discovered that he was having an affair with Bijou. 
• Ned Legard is Sacha's father and one of Tara's ex-husbands.
• Lynden Knowles was Knowles's uncle and he is said to have ordered his nephew's murder.
• Rachel Ramsay is Kenneth's wife. She is sick after having a stroke.
• John Auclair is an important silver collector who Ramsay wanted to sell the Murdoch's pieces to him. 
• Calvin Oswood is the identity that Griffiths steal from a music producer to seduce women. 
• Lady Violet is Culpepper's wife, and the agency discover that she is cheating on him with a woman. 
• Mandy and Daz were the couple who lived in the same building as Wright and they give Cormoran good information. 
• Hussein Mohamed was another neighbour who Cormoran finds almost at the end of the book.
• Cosima Longcaster is Decima's young sister. She got upset when Rupert came to Sacha's party and asked Valentine if it is true that he was actually Domino's son after he had an affair with his mother. 
• Sofia Medina is a Spanish student who gets involved in the murder when he is tricked by Griffith who made her believe he was a music productor. Sofia was murdered after the deed.
• Fyola Fay (Fiona Freeman) is the porn actress who leaves Cormoran a note about the identity of the body as she believes is her fellow actor, Danny. When she is found, Fyola tells Cormoran that there is a powerful man who films porn actors with drunk victims on the sly. 
• Craigh Wheaton was Fyola's partner and a porn director. He was involved in the porn business of Lord Brandfoot. 
• Reata Lindvall was murdered in Belgium in 1998, and this is the name that Mandy and Daz heard Wright utter. Cormoran discovers that she was killed By Griffiths and Todd when they were lorry drivers in Europe.
• Jolanda/Chloe Griffith was Reata's daughter. It was believed that she was murdered alongside her mother, but Cormoran and Robin discovered that Jolanda is Chloe, the girl who was believed to be Griffith's daughter. Robin contacted her as she was interrailing in Europe. Then it was discovered that Chloe was killed by Griffiths. 
• Gretchen Schiff was Sofia's friend, and she tells Cormoran that Sofia had met someone online who was a music producer. 
• Max is Gretchen's boyfriend.
• Ben Liddlell is Semple's mate who was killed in action.
• Rena Liddell is Ben's sister, and she kept calling Cormoran. She has mental problems.
• Ivor Powell was Tyler's father but he moved to Florida.
• Wynn Jones was Tyler's friend and was also involved with Griffiths. He is also arrested at the end of the book.
• Richard de Leon was Dannys brother.
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