Jason Amherst⌗

Works in the labour affairs department at Hughes & Stoddard for Hans Reichenbacher. Amherst was supervising Joanna Delgado’s internship at the firm.

James Bridger⌗

James Bridger is a vice cop at Precinct 40. He likes to wear pastel colours and has an outgoing and friendly demeanour. He immediately hits it off with Joe Faulkner when the two meet for the first time.

Walther Byron⌗

Harcourt Winston’s right hand man. Word on the street is that he does Winston’s dirty work.

Dan Courier⌗

One of the medical examiners of the 40th Precinct. A small, cheerful man with a bald head and a white beard. His nickname for the Evangeline Delgado case is “The Mermaid” because of the circumstances of her death.

Jack De Graaf⌗

Jack De Graaf is a homicide detective at Precinct 40. He is in his mid- to late-40s, wears his grey hair cropped short and always dresses immaculately.

Joe Faulkner

Evangeline Delgado⌗

Evangeline Delgado is a 25-year-old woman whose murder gets Joe Faulkner temporarily assigned to Humboldt Station. She is a lawyer and, at the time of her death, lived alone in her apartment. She interned at the labour affairs department of the law firm Hughes & Stoddard.

Evangeline was murdered by exposure to outside water pressure at 25 bar. At the time, she was wearing very expensive clothes, including underwear by designer Dolores Dante. Faulkner theorises that she was put in an airlock (probably of a boat) and blown into the open sea.

Madeleine Delgado⌗

Mother of Evangeline and Susanna. Lives together with her husband Sam Delgado in an extravagant, but run down home. Before her retirement, Madeleine worked as a civil engineer for Humboldt Station’s public works department.

Sam Delgado⌗

Father of Evangeline and Susanna, husband of Madeleine Delgado. Before Sam retired, he worked as an assistant secretary to the harbourmaster of Humboldt Station. He maintains extensive contacts to the Dock Workers' Union and within the station’s administration.

Susanna Delgado⌗

Younger sister of Evangeline, disappeared without a trace when she was a teenager. The police never got anywhere trying to solve the case of her disappearance. She is officially presumed to be dead.

Leonard Dijkstra⌗

Leonard “Leo” Dijkstra is the CEO of Benthos Industries and one of the richest people in the world. He’s rumoured to be extremely eccentric.

Joe Faulkner

Josephus “Joe” Faulkner⌗

Also known as “Gunfire”, Joe Faulkner is a veteran homicide detective from the 57th Police Precinct in Aristide Station. During the story of GRIM DEEP, he is investigating the murder of Evangeline Delgado in Humboldt Station on behalf of the local 40th Precinct.

Joe is a functioning alcoholic who is way past his prime. He used to be a great detective, but these days he’s barely a detective at all anymore. His nickname “Gunfire” was given to him at his home precinct, because he tends to fortify his morning tea with rum to get him through the day.

Joe always wears a beat-up, drab coloured coat over his clothes and he never leaves home without his battered grey fedora made from mycelium felt.

Just prior to the events of GRIM DEEP, he was confined to desk duty and undergoing psychological evaluation for punching his superior in the face in the wake of a botched case. When we first meet him, he is just waking up from a hangover from hell.

Frank Johnson⌗

A homicide detective at the 40th Precinct. He is about 35 years old and the top dog of the detective bureau. He has shoulder-length blonde hair and thinks Joe Faulkner is a has-been and a failure. He is probably also feeling threatened by Faulkner and wants him gone from his turf as quickly as possible.

Tricia “Trish” Martinez⌗

Tricia Martinez is a detective in the homicide bureau of Precinct 40. She is in her mid-30s and seems to have developed a liking for Joe Faulkner. She is emotionally attached to him as one would get attached to a very small and very clumsy dog.

Hans Reichenbacher⌗

Hans Reichenbacher is in his late-80s and head of the labour affairs department at Hughes & Stoddard.

Harcourt Winston⌗

Harbourmaster of Humboldt Station. He’s also head of the Dock Workers' Union local on the station.

Lydia Winters⌗

Lieutenant Winters runs the homicide squad of the 40th Precinct in Humboldt Station. She called in a detective from Aristide Station to deal with the murder of Evangeline Delgado — this case got assigned to Joe Faulkner. Since the 40th Precint only runs a small station house and the homicide desk usually deals with domestic matters, Winters decided that expert help from uptown might come in handy. She is responsible for reducing Humboldt’s violent crime stats, and those stats aren’t looking good; therefore, she needs the Delgado case cleared by any means necessary.