Adam – Lucy’s son.
Al Rokeby (Chapter 86) – Strike’s half brother who is still pissed off with him.
Sir Almroth Wright – bacteriologist, and author Dudley Wright (chapter 7)
Alphonso Mucha – designer of two jewels sold in Ramsay Silver the day before Strike and Robin’s first visit there.
Alyssa – Shanker’s girlfriend.
Amelia Crichton – Charlotte’s sister who had met up with Strike to tell him what Charlotte had written in her suicide note.
Angel – Alyssa’s daughter.
Angela Darwish – MI5
Angus Lyall
Sir Anthony Campbell – Father of Charlotte Campbell.
Barnaby – Robin’s new nephew, son of Stephen and Jenny. Born from an emergency Caesarean.
Benjy – Strike and Robin’s godson. Son of Nick and Ilsa.
Bradley – Security man at Gibsons Auction House.
Mr Butler – Robin’s surgeon in the hospital who tells her that she is unlikely to be able to conceive naturally because of the scarring on her remaining fallopian tube.
Carla – Rokeby’s ex wife.
Charlie Carter – Head of Deliveries at Gibsons Auction House. Looked ex-military or police. Very short hair, penetrating gaze, wearing royal blue overalls neatly pressed.
Colin Pepper (Ch 79)
Craig Wheaton – A porn director living with Fyola Fay.
Sir Daniel Gayle – A retired commissioner who told Decima the body in the silver vault wasn’t for certain the thief Jason Knowles. Gayle’s daughter works for Decima at her restaurant The Happy Carrot on Sloane Street.
Danni – Rokeby’s daughter.
Darren Pratt
Dave – Delivery driver working for Gibsons Auction House. Was delivering the Murdoch silver with Larry McGee when McGee left him behind after he’d gone into Boots.
Diana Boadu – Works at Gibson’s Auction House (Chapter 25)
Denholm – Rokeby’s lawyer.
Doris
Dredge – the drug dealer after Zac, Rupert’s housemate. He threatens Rupert after asking for payment of the debt Zac left behind.
Ed Billings
Ed Rokeby – in rehab again
Elin Toft – One of Strike’s ex-girlfriends.
Ellen – Midge’s second to last ex’s ex. (Mentioned in The Ink Black Heart)
Farah Navabi, formerly of Patterson Inc, now setting up her own detective agency and asks Kim Cochran to join her. “That woman could wiggle her way out of anything.” Kim tells Strike, after he points out Navabi was the one who planted the bugs that got Mitch Patterson arrested.
Gagandeep
Gary Topley – A soldier who died in the same incident in Afghanistan where Strike lost his leg.
Gill Powell
Grace – Takes Strike up to see Sacha Legard in the National Theatre (Chapter 36)
Harvey Whitehead – Faber and Lucinda’s eldest son.
Hafsa Hussein – A nine year old Syrian girl in a wheelchair who lived in St George’s Avenue above Wright. A sweet heart-shaped face and enormous, thick-lashed eyes. (Chapter 62)
Hector – The lactose intolerant kid who ate a load of cheese straws and vomits on the floor near Strike, splattering his shoes and trousers. (Chapter 40)
Ivor Powell – Tyler’s father who lives in Florida.
Jason – Carmen’s ex boyfriend.
Jeff Whittaker – The husband of Leda Strike whom Strike believes murdered her. When asked by Robin if he’d ever wish death on anyone he hates, Strike thinks immediately of Whittaker.
Jenny – Rokeby’s wife since 1981. Film producer.
Jimmy – in Deadbeats?
John Auclair – An advertising millionaire. A “very important silver collector” according to Kenneth Ramsay. He’d asked Kenneth to put the Murdoch silver aside for him to view before offering it to anyone else.
Jonathan and Mazu Wace – Leaders of the Universal Humanitarian Church who have now been arrested.
Joshua – doorman at Dino’s
Katie – Robin’s cousin who announced a second pregnancy.
Miss Jones
Laura – a woman who works in Ramsay Silver. When Kenneth is about to show Strike and Robin into the silver vault he tells Laura she can go for her lunch break.
Leo – Deadbeats drummer.
Lina – The waitress Robin talks to outside Dino’s who tells her Albie is now working in Harrods.
Lion Fleetwood – Decima and Rupert’s baby son.
Lizzie – Ryan Murphy’s ex-wife. Her cheating is Ryan’s excuse for any signs of jealousy he may outwardly show Robin because of her closeness with Strike.
Lorelei Bevan – One of Strike’s ex-girlfriends.
Lottie Hazlerigg
Lucinda Whitehead – Hugo’s mother.
Lynden Knowles – Jason Knowles’ uncle and career criminal. Strike believes it unlikely that Lynden is involved in the theft of the Murdoch silver, with Jason Knowles as accomplice, because he doesn’t see why a career criminal like him would want Masonic silverware.
Madeleine Courson-Miles – One of Strike’s ex-girlfriends.
Mickey Edwards
Nancy Jameson (nee Philpott) – Jim Todd’s mother. Lives in Harlesden.
Ned Legard – Rupert Fleetwood’s uncle and Charlotte Campbell’s second step-father. He is the father of Sacha Legard, a famous actor and one of Charlotte’s favourite siblings.
Oliver – works at Dino’s
Peter Gillespie
Phillip Ormond – A suspect in a previous investigation.
Rachel Ramsay(?) (nee Bullen), Kenneth Ramsay’s wife and sister to Pamela Bullen-Driscoll.
Ray– Kim’s ex. She tells Strike being made redundant from a hospital trust and being jobless became his whole personality.
Peter Fleetwood – Rupert’s father. Died while skiing in Switzerland. He used to play backgammon with Dino Longcaster, Decima’s father, and lost the silver nef to him.
The Riccis – Niccolò, Luca and Marco (Chapter 90)
Richard Anstis – Strike’s friend and ex-SIB colleague who had half his face blown off in the same explosion Strike lost half his leg. He now works for the Met.
Roy Carver – It’s mentioned how he lost his job in the Met because of Strike and Robin.
Tala – Works for Rokeby as a housekeeper.
Tasha – Midges girlfriend who Midge suspects is cheating on her with a male actor.
Tilly – One of Pat’s great-granddaughters. Wanted fish for her birthday.
Trevik Nancarrow – Strike’s Cornish grandfather. He was a very bad-tempered alcoholic, a trait that ran in the family until Ted put an end to it.
Veronica Fleetwood – Rupert’s mother, died while skiing in Switzerland.
Lord Victor Lambert – Sits on the Branfoot Trust. Robin sees him with Branfoot in the Telegraph and recognises him as a customer in Ramsay Silver when her and Strike were there.
Wade King – “Green Jacket”. 36, long-distance lorry driver now unemployed. Lives with girlfriend in Rainham.
Online usernames in chapter 7: Shaun Coolidge, Peter Mikkelsen, Floozy Soozy, Debbie Palser, Jane Burnett, SkankyDoodle, Jeff Grayling, Paul Eveeigh, Starbanger
Online Instagram usernames in chapter 15: lolajonz, rileymiley, ayeshaaaa, ponzie2, chloegriff
Online usernames from Truth About Freemasons in chapter 16: GI-67, Stolkin, AustinH, Gareb 7
Online usernames on Abused and Accused in Chapter 19: Anon9, Dogger, AustinH, Kojak, Kibosh, Belter, C2J88, Japh
Online usernames on Truth About Freemasons in Chapter 61: K of the East, Jeroboam9, Harry O’Dim, St Geo, DeMolay.
Online usernames that commented on Sofia Medina’s OnlyFans in Chapter 97: Fat_Hard_Cock, Bucket O’Jism, SkunkB