Chrissie

Chrissie is one of Finn's co-workers at the bookstore. Talkative and clothes-conscious, she is in charge of the crime, western, and romance exchange section.

Eileen

Eileen is one of the down-and-outs who congregate at the bookstore. She and Isabella quarrel and fight.

Harry

Harry is a drunk from the St. Vincent de Paul hostel who often takes refuge in the bookstore. Miss Macken throws him out.

Isabella

Isabella is one of a group of down-and-outs who kill time in the bookstore. She wears black fishnet tights.

Miss Macken

Miss Macken is Finn's boss at the bookstore.

Aharleen McCabe

Sharleen is a young girl who goes to the bookstore to borrow murder mysteries for her grandmother.

Jack McHenry

Jack McHenry is Finn's English boyfriend. He is a newspaper journalist. Finn first met him in 1969, when Jack was reporting on the riots in Belfast. Jack is a practical man and...