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WWTBGN - characters
Louise Monroe
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feels trapped in her new marriage and middle-class lifestyle, believing she is not good enough for PB
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is obsessed with stories of female victims who run and hide, like Allison Needler, who she obsessively guards and JMH, who she idolises as a "good survivor"
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has a maternal fondness for her protege, Marcus McLellan
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she grew up and grew up with an alcoholic single mother and makes references yo a difficult youth, though she seldom elaborates
40 years old and married to PB, also has 16-year-old son, Archie
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Detective Chief Inspector with the Lothian and Borders Police, headwuarterd in Edinburgh
Jackson Brodie
RC saves his life, later befriends him when she tracks him down in the hospital, claiming him as a father figure and also an ally in her search for Jo H M
lost his sister, Niamh, to murder when they were both teenagers. thus = life long obsession with finding and rescuing women, often thinking of himself as a shepherd
on his way back home to London, he gets on the wrong train and is nearly killed when the train crashes outside Edinburgh
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also has a daughter, Marlee, via ex-wife Josie & he is newly married to Tessa
at the end of novel, its revealed that he was the young soldier who found six-year old JMH in the wheat field
at the beginning of novel, visits Yorkshire to see N
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when he finally returns to London, he finds AD dead in his flat and learns Tessa was an imposter, she cleaned his bank accounts and fled
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though he fears he's too old to start fresh, he remembers that he's a "crusader" and revolves to keep going
Joanna Mason Hunter
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as a girl, obedient and preferred to let others do her thinking
as an adult, feels guilty about her failure to protect/save her little brothers life, thus maintaining "there are no rules", and the only thing that matters is "love"
as a mother, she is extremely protective of GJH (who she only calls "the baby") and she trusts the dog with her and baby's life
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when she was 6, rest of her family murdered by AD in a random. knife attack in rural Devon
after LM informs of AD being released from prison, she disappears with an uncharacteristic lack of communication
she hires RC as "mothers help" and RC idolises her, finding her competence and maternal warmth comforting
NH claims she went to visit her sick aunt AB,RC (picks up clues)and JB find her at a remote farmhouse outside Edinburgh. she just killed 2 of her captors (who she named Peter and John in an attempt yo humanise them)
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later AD found dead in JB's Lodon flat, apparently using a handgun she had bought
she claims to have forgotten all the details of her kidnapping and moves on with her life, inviting RC to love with her and rejecting NH
Reggie Chase
after her mothers death, she gets first-aid training from Dr H and is especially sensitive to the needs of anyone who's alone or vulnerable
helps Ms M, with errands and watches Banjo
is a hard worker who budgets carefully to support herself, working weekend shifts in Mr Hussain's shops and working weeekdays as "mothers help" for JMH
when Musselfburgh train crashoccurs nearby she rushes to the scene and saves JB';s life. later tracks him down in the hospital and befriends him into helping find JMH
is bright, clever and bookishly inclined, avidly studying English, Latin and Greek literature even though she's dropped out of the "horrible posh school" she once attended on scholarship
she is deeply loyal to JMH, who she regards as a mother figure, and is intimately familiar with the family routines
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when JMH goes missing, her observant nature and dogged loyalty helps JB and LM eventually track down and rescue JMH
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after JMH ordeal, she moves in wit the Hunters, finally finding the stable family environment she's craved
Ms MacDonald
she is a rather bitter person, but she is good to RC and loves her dog, Banjo
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she also "got religion", joining a fringe, Rapture-obsessed Christian church
on her way homeroom a prayer meeting, she is killed when she drives into the train track, which causes the Musselburgh train crash
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RC takes responsibility for her remains and her funeral, since she has no one else
she leaves half of her house sale to RC, allowing RC to go to college
Patrick Brennan
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Lm believes she isn't good enough for I'm and buries herself in her work to avoid him and his visiting in-laws, Bridget and Tim
LM's husband, who is described by her as Irish, wise and amiable
at the end of novel, she decided to leave him, although she's pregnant with his child
Billy Chase
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thugs associated with him trash RC's flat and later burn it down, RC discovers that Billy, on the premises of doing odd jobs for Ms Macdonald has been smuggling heroin in hollow-out Loeb Classsics editions.
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he later at the end of the book, threatens RC with violence, muses that he's going to kill her - unclear whether this is an idle threat or not
happens that he sold a Russian handgun, his father';s Gulf War souvenir to JMH, though RC is unaware that Dr H had any knowledge of him
Andrew Decker
JHM visits him a month before his release, apparently in an attempt to understand his motives
lesss than a week after his release, he goes missing and is found dead of apparent suicide inn JB's flat, having somehow swapped ID's with JB
serves a 30-year sentence, is a model prisoner and converts to Catholicism while in prison
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murdered Gabrielle, Jessica and Joseph Hunter in a random, upremeditated knife attack I rural Devon when he was a young man
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Nathan
Jb believes, he is his father via ex-gf Julia who denies his paternity. claims "Mr Arty-Farty" is the father instead
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