STANDING IN THE SHADOWS
Characters - Alphabetical
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| FIRST NAME | LAST NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| Ken | Blackstone | One of Banks's associates. |
| Malcolm | Briers | Grace's boss. |
| Kathleen | Bryant | Harold's lawyer. |
| Dick | Burgess | Bank's closest friend. |
| Annie | Cabbot | Gerry's colleague. |
| Ray | Cabbot | Annie's father. |
| Penny | Cartwright | A singer. |
| William | Collins | A detective constable. Aka: Wilkie. |
| Millie | Dowling | The murdered schoolgirl. |
| Leonard | Farrier | The head supervisor of Eastvale Drainage Solutions. |
| Larry | Fletcher | The head honcho. |
| Karen | Galway | The Home Office Pathologist. |
| Harold | Gillespie | The owner of the farm where the human skull was found. |
| Jack | Gillespie | Harold's father. |
| Sylvia | Gillespie | Harold's wife. |
| Christopher | Glassco | Marley's partner. |
| Ronald | Gregory | The chief constable. |
| Barry | Hargreaves | Mandy's ex. Nick's friend. |
| Nicholas | Hartley | Alice's ex-boyfriend. AKA: Nick. |
| Jack | Hattersley | Nick's new colleague. |
| Jacqueline | Hill | The recent victim of the Yorkshire Ripper. |
| Robert | Holden | Wesley and Veronica's son. |
| Veronica | Holden | Wesley's wife. |
| Grace | Hutchinson | An archaeologist who found a human skull. |
| Roy | Jenkins | The current Home Secretary. |
| Gary | Kirk | The guy Alice used to hang around with. |
| Frances | Lee | The woman who found Alice dead body. |
| Kim | Lee | The scientific support coordinator. |
| Ron | Maisonville | Harold's old colleague. |
| Olive | Marley | Christopher's wife. |
| Stuart | Marley | The detective-in-charge of Alice's murder case. |
| Gerry | Masterson | A detective constable. |
| Theresa | May | A former Home Secretary. |
| Ron | McLaughlin | The assistant chief constable. |
| Dick | Ockham | Editor of Ossett Observer. |
| George | Oldfield | The detective-in-charge of Ripper's case. |
| Mandy | Pembroke | Alice's closest friend. |
| Alice | Poole | Murdered. |
| Joyce | Poole | Alice's mother. |
| Reginald | Poole | Alice's father. |
| Noel | Pullman | A local bookseller. |
| Yorkshire | Ripper | A serial killer. AKA: Peter Sutcliffe. |
| Francis | Runcorn | Dr. Galway's forensic anthropologist. |
| Jazz | Singh | One of the lab technicians. |
| Jeremy | Thorpe | A political party leader. |
| Michael | Wesley | A local crime kingpin. |
| Mark | Woodcroft | Alice's new boyfriend. |
| Derek | Younnis | A war survivor. |
| Anton | Nick's best friend. | |
| Banks | Protagonist. | |
| Bella | Larry's girlfriend. | |
| Chris | Nick's friend. | |
| Cyril | A bar owner. | |
| Dave | One of Nick and Alice's neighbors. | |
| Dobson | A detective constable. | |
| Geoff | Nick's neighbor. A librarian. | |
| Gervaise | The Chief Superintendent. | |
| Jackman | Gerry's colleague. | |
| Jasper | Harold's dog. | |
| Jill | The girl from Nick's tutorial group. | |
| Joshua | Winsome's son. | |
| Liam | Banks's carpenter friend. | |
| Liz | Jill's friend. | |
| Louise | Harold's first wife. | |
| Lucy | Mark's neighbor. | |
| Maria | One of Nick and Alice's neighbors. | |
| Martin | Jill's friend. | |
| Mary | Dick's assistant. | |
| Millgarth | The police desk officer. | |
| Morton | One of Banks's associates. | |
| Nelia | Ray Cabbot's partner. | |
| Nowak | A CSI agent. | |
| Raglan | A policewoman. | |
| Russ | Jill's friend. | |
| Sally | One of Nick and Alice's neighbors. | |
| Sonia | Peter's wife. | |
| Stefan | The crime scene manager. | |
| Steve | Nick's friend. | |
| Susie | Lucy's roommate. | |
| Terry | Winsome's husband. | |
| Tracy | Banks's daughter. | |
| Winsome | One of Banks's associates. | |
| Zelda | Ray's girlfriend. |
