| Mrs. |
Brunswick | Bank customer representative. |
| Hugh |
Case | Former Wood/Warren engineer, killer himself. |
| Lyda |
Case | Hugh's wife. |
| Joan |
Crawford | Actress. |
| Ava |
Daugherty | Office manager. |
| Len |
Deighton | Novelist. |
| Con |
Dolan | Lieutenant. |
| John |
Dudley | Fire chief. |
| Chris |
Emms | Terry's real identity. |
| Kahlil |
Gibran | Writer. |
| Lonnie |
Kingman | Criminal attorney. |
| Terry |
Kohler | Lance's brother-in-law. |
| Kinsey |
Millhone | Private investigator, protagonist. |
| Andy |
Motycka | CF claims manager. |
| Janice |
Motycka | Andy's wife. |
| Francesca |
Palmer | Kinsey's old friend. |
| Darcy |
Pascoe | Secretary at California Fidelity. |
| Henry |
Pitts | Kinsey's landlord. |
| Camilla |
Robb | Jonah's wife. |
| Jonah |
Robb | Kinsey's friend from Missing Persons. |
| Bertrand |
Russell | Philosopher. |
| John |
Salkowitz | Chemical engineer and consulting associate. |
| Rudy |
Schiffman | Jonah's colleague. |
| Maclin |
Voorhies | CF Vice-President. Aka: Mac |
| Daniel |
Wade | Kinsey's second ex-husband, jazz pianist. |
| Ashley |
Wood | Lance's sister, Kinsey's ex-classmate. Aka: Ash |
| Bass |
Wood | Lance's brother. |
| Ebony |
Wood | Lance's sister. |
| Helen |
Wood | The Woods' mother. |
| Lance |
Wood | Company owner of Wood/Warren. |
| Woody |
Wood | The Woods' father. |
| Olive |
Wood-Kohler | Lance's sister, Terry's wife. |
| Sharie |
Wright | Kinsey's nurse. |
| Dr. |
Yee | Forensic pathologist. |
| Betsy |
| Lyda's roommate. |
| Claudine |
| Waitress. |
| Donan |
| Ash and Kinsey's old classmate, OB-GYN. |
| Elise |
| Daniel's therapist. |
| Elsie |
| Stewardess. |
| Emerald |
| Police receptionist. |
| Heather |
| Receptionist at Wood/Warren. |
| Jewel |
| CF investigator. |
| Julian |
| Ebony's husband, Playboy model. |
| Lorraine |
| Janice's sister. |
| Lupe |
| Kinsey's travel agent. |
| Rosie |
| Resto-bar owner. |
