| 1 | Sam | Stewart | Foyle's driver. |
| | Foyle | | The protagonist of the movie called Foyle's War. |
| | Adam | | Sam's lover. |
| | Honeysuckle | | An actress. |
| | Jill | Green | Tony's wife. |
| | Stuart | Orme | The director. |
| | Anthony | Horowitz | Narrator and Protagonist. Aka: Tony. |
| | Daniel | Hawthorne | A detective. Tony's friend. |
| 2 | Michael | Kitchen | A TV script editor. |
| | Selina | Walker | Tony's new publisher. |
| | Richard | Pryce | The victim. Aka: The Blunt Razor. |
| | Fiona | Shackleton | Pryce's companion. |
| | Akira | Anno | A writer of literary fiction. |
| | Diana | Cowper | The Victim on Tony's previous case. |
| 3 | Cara | Grunshaw | A DI at Metropolitan Police. |
| | Mariella | Petrov | Pryce's cleaner. |
| | DI | Meadows | The detective inspector at Diana Cowper's murder case. |
| | Henry | Fairchild | Pryce's neighbor. |
| | Stephen | Spencer | Pryce's husband. |
| | Adrian | Lockwood | Pryce's client. Akira's husband. |
| 4 | Darren | Mills | A detective. Cara's partner. |
| | Oliver | Masefield | Pryce's law firm partner. |
| | Rufus | | Henry's dog. |
| 5 | Maurice | Turnbull | Pryce's law frim partner. |
| | Davina | Richardson | An interior decorator. Pryce's close friend. |
| | Kevin | Chakraborty | Lisa's son. The boy in the wheelchair. |
| 6 | Marcus | Brandt | An English cinematographer. Akira's ex-husband. |
| | Alain | Badiou | A French Philosopher. |
| | Dawn | Adams | Akira's friend. A publisher. |
| 7 | Stephanie | Brook | An actress. Lockwood's first wife. |
| | Charles | Richardson | Davina's dead husband. |
| | Colin | Richardson | Charles and Davina's son. |
| 8 | Bertha | | Davina's grandfather clock. |
| | Gregory | Taylor | Pryce's friend. |
| 9 | James | McCoy | A detective constable in charge of Gregory Taylor's murder case. |
| | Salim | | A police constable. |
| | | | PUT - Person Under a Train. |
| | Susan | Taylor | Gregory's wife. |
| 10 | Dave | Gallivan | The duty controller. |
| | June | Taylor | Susan and Greg's daughter. |
| | Maisie | Taylor | Susan and Greg's daughter. |
| | Chris | Jackson | The farmer where Greg and Richard asked for help. |
| 11 | Barbara | Jackson | Chris's wife. |
| | Mike | Carlyle | The man who approached Hawthorne. |
| 12 | Faraz | Delijani | Spencer's lover. |
| 14 | Rebecca | Lefevre | The bookstore manager. |
| 16 | Lisa | Chakraborty | Kevin's mother. |
| | Kenneth | Brannigan | Hawthorne's neighbor. |
| | Cassian | Brannigan | Kenneth's son. |
| | Christine | | Lisa's friend. |
| 17 | Hilda | Drake | Tony's literary agent. |
| | James | Daunt | Owner of Daunt Books. |
| 18 | Lenny | Pinkerman | Hawthorne's friend. Aka: Lofty. |
| | Derek | Abbott | The suspected child pornographer. |
| | Marge | Pinkerman | Lofty's wife. |
| | Graham | Hain | Pryce's forensic accountant. |
| 19 | Mark | Belladonna | Dawn's writer. |
