Emily Stabler
A busty Missing Persons Detective who wears a baby Browning .25 auto in a thigh holster. She has lips like a pre-Rafaelite Madonna and a body like Swartzenegger. She takes an immediate disliking to Moody, but has experienced enough sexism in the department’s male culture to identify with his outsider status.
Percy Cantrell
A shrewd Homicide Detective who is wiry, fair-haired and in his late 30’s. A Southerner transplanted to California. He has red complexion and the annoying habit of sucking air through his teeth like a good old boy. Has worked all over the LAPD: Vice, Robbery/Homicide, and Homicide Special Section. He’s Moody’s friend.
Finn Reilly
Gar’s dead girlfriend. A troubled but soulful red-head that haunts him and presides over his waking moments like a tormenting angel.
Milo Roach
A Chinese-food loving Pathologist with a dark sense of humor who befriends Moody.
Catherine St. Cloud
An ex-nun and NYPD Homicide Detective. A tall, somber woman with wheat-colored hair who once presided over similar kidnappings in New York.
Hope Dean
A patient of Gar’s who is an actress in indie films. A tall, black-haired young woman cursed with the face of a goddess. She’s attracted to Moody, who must resist her advances and his own urges to protect her when she falls into the target group.
Vance Tucker
A black Mythologist who rides motorcycles. He met Gar at Pacifica where they both took their training. He’s a former L.A. County Sheriff who writes a blog about the LAPD’s racist culture.
Elizabeth Dunham
A blond Freudian psychoanalyst with frosty blue eyes. She drives a candy-orange Avanti, wears tight black dresses and flirts outrageously. Her interactions with Moody are yawning with sensuality. She’s a woman with a secret who appears to have treated Gar’s dead girlfriend and taunts him with this information.
Hussein
Moody’s landlord. A large businessman from London with a power pony-tail who has an aversion to police and threatens to evict Moody. His house, the size of a Masonic temple, sits a few blocks up the canyon from the ocean and is often the scene of wild parties.
Wesley and Roz
World-class tweakers—who met sharing a needle under Venice Pier—and are shacking up in a run-down unit next door. They constantly invade Moody's space. When one of his patients is kidnapped on the property, Wesley and his Brit girlfriend appear to have gotten a look at the kidnapper.
Dr. Winnetka
Moody’s therapist who also supervises his patient load. She is an elderly, gray, semi-retired painter who helps Gar unravel the complex emotions he undergoes when his patients start getting kidnapped. A smart, wise, compassionate woman. A cat lover.
As well as Patients, Doctors, Nurses, Social Workers, Cops, Secretaries, Pedestrians, Bikers, Bladers, and the City of Los Angeles, a character in itself.
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