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Terry

This character coaches a Little League team in Flint City. He has a wife and two daughters and often acts in an altruistic fashion, even toward those who have wronged him. This character is fatally shot on the day of his arraignment in an act of revenge by the older brother of the boy who turned up dead at the start of the novel.

Marcy

This character is the wife of the man murdered outside of the courthouse by a vigilante. She is also the mother of that character's two daughters. This character struggles with the loss of her husband throughout the events of the novel. Her resentment toward particular law enforcement officials at first builds exponentially, but she eventually comes to understand that they had only been pursuing the suspect who had appeared in nearly every way to be guilty. This person is strong and decisive, even...

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