The Scholar - Characters

 

 SPOILERS!!!

These are the characters in the series for further reference:

REGULAR CHARACTERS

• DS Cormac Reilly (40) is a detective and has spent almost all his working life in Dublin. Yet, he requested his transfer to Galway because his partner had to move to Galway for work. It seems that there are many at the station who have certain animosity towards Cormac.  

• Emma is Cormac's partner. She is a biologist and has an important project to develop at university. Emma met Cormac through his job. Emma's father had a business that made money, but then he decided to leave, and it was then that the crisis hit. His former partners lost money and some of them blamed him. There was one who was particularly vicious and stalked Emma and her sister. One day Emma found him in her home and he attacked her, beating her up, and then her younger sister appeared. The man tried to rape her, and then Emma caught a knife and killed him. It was self-defence, and it was then that Emma met Cormac. 
• Sergeant Carrie O'Halloran is another garda. She complains to the superintendent because she feels snowed under, and the superintendent gives Corman some of her cases, and eh is not happy either. Carrie is married and has two daughters.
• Peter Fisher is another garda who becomes vital in the investigation. 
• Dr Yvonne Connolly is the assstant state pathologist.
• Sergeant Melanie Hacket is another detective but in this book she was away. 
• Brian Murphy is the superintendent. 
• Moira Hanley is a garda who seems to be against Cormac for some reason. 
• Ciaran O'Halloran is Carrie's husband.
• Lainey O'Halloran is Carrie's four-year-old daughter.
• Miriam O'Halloran is Carrie's ten-year-old daughter.
• Ceri Walsh is a garda.
• Dave McCarthy is another garda. 
• Richard Sweeney is Emma's father. 
• Caroline Sweeney is Emma's mother. She is a doctor. 
• Roisin Sweeney is Emma's younger sister. 
• Becca Reilly is Cormac's sister.

CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK

• Carline Darcy is a main character in the novel. She is the granddaughter of a billionaire, owner of a pharmaceutical company, but her grandfather was not fond of her. Carline's father had a one-night stand with a ill-reputed woman, and Eoghan Darcy gained custody of Carline. Then he died in an avalanche while skiing. So Carline had to live with her mother for a few years. Carline was studying at Galway university and working in her grandfather's laboratory. Yet, she used the money she had inherited to pay a friend, Della, to do all her work at university because she wanted to impress her grandfather. Carline and Della found out that the person in charge of the laboratory had lied about some results, and that is how she and Della got killed.
• John Darcy is Carline's grandfather and he didn't approve of her because of her parentage. 
• Rob Henderson is a man who tried to kill his family by installing some pipes attached to gas cylinders. The police found him when his teenage son told his teacher that he felt afraid of his father.
• Lucy Henderson is Rob's wife. Carrie tried to make her speak against her husband for weeks with no result. When the case comes to Cormac, he manages to get her to confess that her husband abused her psychologically.
• Fearghal Henderson (15) is Rob Henderson's son. It was him who confessed to his teacher that he was afraid of his father. When Rob was arrested, he felt guilty that his father was in prison because of him. However, thanks to the intervention of Cormac Fearghal finally told the police that his father kept his mother under his control and he even hit her once. 
• Susan Armstrong is Lucy's sister and stayed with her and the children as the police were afraid that Lucy may try to finish what her husband hadn't been able to do. 
• Eoghan Darcy was Carline's father who died in an avalanche when she was twelve. Carline inherited his fortune.
• Evangeline is Carline's mother. 
• Tom Collins (35) is Maude's friend. He is a solicitor, but while he grew up, he went from family to family.
• Valentina is Carline's flatmate.
• Mark Wardle is Carline's flatmate..
• Professor Nathan Egan is the university president. 
• James Murtagh is the head of the laboratory where Emma works. The laboratory is owned by John Darcy, and here is where Carline and Della worked. Della discovered that some of James's research on drugs was untrue, and Della threatened to expose him. That is why he killed both Della and Carline.
• Della Lambert is the young woman whose body Emma found. She was run over, and her body was squashed several times. Della was very intelligent and started studying biology at university. When she met Carline, the latter offered her money in exchange for using her knowledge to pass exams and helping her in the laboratory. Della found out that Murtagh had tampered with data about some drugs, and she wanted to have him exposed, and that is why she got killed.
• Paul Lambert was Della's brother. He goes to the station to report his sister's disappearance and that is how the police manage to identify the body that Emma found.  
• Eileen Lambert is Della's mother. She doesn't seem to care about her daughter, and Cormac realises that as Della brought home money, the mother didn't care where the money came from. 
• Geraldine Lambert is Della's sister. She has Down Sydrome.
• Josep Zabielski is the security guard in the laboratory. 
• Graham Nicholls is Della's former tutor. He tells Cormac that Della was an extraordinary student.
• Detective Garda Michael Moltoni is from internal affairs. He and his partner tell Cormac that he has to be taken off the case because of Emma's involvement.
• Garda Katherine Naude is from internal affairs.