Al and Sandra Marrazzo: In the Rainmaker, Bunny and Mark Rollins discover that the Marrazzo's are mutual friends when Bunny tells Rollins that she and Neil will be having dinner with the couple. Al is a partner in Skadden Arps and Sandra is a partner in PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Anre Delorme: In the Puppeteer Delorme is the magistrate in the city of Bordeaux France that is handling the investigation of Amber Lansden's death.
Arlene Honeycutt: In the Rainmaker, Mrs. Honeycutt is attorney Christopher Berry's secretary.
Billy Hill: In the Rainmaker, he is a patrolman on the Belle Meade police force.
Brittany (last name unknown): In the Rainmaker, Brittany is the receptionist at the ParishWelch law firm.
Carl Morgan: Morgan is the Chief of the Belle Meade police department.
Carl Powell: In the Rainmaker, Powell is a private security guard who, along with a Metro Nashville policeman, is monitoring activity within the Nashville International Airport as captured by security cameras. They are the eyes for for the airport security personnel with boots on the ground.
Carolyn Osburn: In the Puppeteer Osburn is in her fifties and is a 17 year veteran of law firm's accounting department. Mariko is undercover and Osburn takes the trainee under her wing and among other things explains the law firm's billing and disbursement procedures to Mariko.
Cassie Lansden: Cassie is Harold T. Lansden's first wife in the Puppeteer. She couldn't stand the obligations of Lansden political life. Her distain for the limelight and H. T.'s need for it eventually lead to the divorce.
Chris Howell: In the New Career, Captain Chris Howell is a helicopter pilot in the Diamond Knight paramilitary organization.
Christen Matous: In the Puppeteer, Christen is Rollins's server at the Capitol Grill.
Christine Orcus: In Mark Rollins and the Rainmaker, (the Rainmaker), Christine is portrayed as the villain. The question of who is Christine Orcus is a central element of the mystery. In mythology, Orcus is powerful, wise, an accumulator of riches, and a punisher of broken oaths.
Christopher D. Berry: In the Rainmaker, Berry is described as the youngest ParishWelch partner at 38. Given Berry's age, Rollins is surprised at his Alfred Hitchock profile and limp handshake. Aspects of his past raise questions. Rollins is faced with the question: Is Berry a good guy or a bad guy?
Colonel Jeremy Baker: In the Puppeteer, Baker is identified as a distinguished U. S Army officer currently on the West Point faculty. Rollins uses him to establish that Rollins word can be accepted as 100% reliable.
Curtis Ward: In the Puppeteer we meet the conference attendee buddies of Owen Santo. Curtis is one them--fellow administrators who share problems, tricks of the trade and who play together.
David F. Blackwell: In Mark Rollins and the Rainmaker, (The Rainmaker), Blackwell is described as the most team-oriented of the ParishWelch partners. Rollins relies on him for much of the background information on the law firm partners and employees. In appearance, he reminds Rollins of former president Nixon.
Debbie Star Moon: Debbie is mentioned for the first time in the prologue of the Rainmaker. Rollins identifies her as "My tall, full-blooded North American Indian hairdresser."
Donna Hill: In the Rainmaker, she is a plain-clothes member of the security force at Nashville's International Airport.
Dorin and Gabriela: In the Puppeteer, Mark and Sarah Rollins have brought this Romania couple into their home as live in domestics. Dorin is a graduate student at Vanderbilt. Gabriela is his wife. The arrangement is short lived.
Ed Milbank: Milbank is the Private Investigator in the Puppeteer who took pictures that if found could help solve the case.
Edward W. Melbourne: Melbourne is the Nashville based representative of Hudson Bluff Mortgage. The company specializes in mortgage refinanceing.
Eileen Walker: Mrs. Walker, an African American, is a secretary and long time employee at the ParishWelch law firm. In the Rainmaker, her daughter was represented at trial by Neil Forte and is serving a sentence in the Tennessee Prison for Women.
Emmett Davis: In the Rainmaker, Davis is the lead detective assigned to the Steelman case involving the missing live-in girlfriend of Kurt Harmond.
Greenwood: Mr. Greenwood is the banker for the law firm of Lansden, Tillman and Hall in the Puppeteer.
George Thomas: In the Rainmaker, Thomas is the junior partner of FBI agent Lucius Reed.
Gordon Seemann: In the Puppeteer, Seemann is the young CPA who became the CFO of Hudson Bluff Mortgage, Inc. after softening the audit firm's management letter critical of the organizations financial controls.
Hall: Mr. Hall is one of the three orginal partners of Lansden, Tillman and Hall in the Puppeteer.
Halsey Kingman: Halsey is the CEO of the Diamond Knights, Inc., previously the Diamond Detective Agency. Halsey worked with Rollins during their Vector Data days and is mentioned in the New Career. Kingman does not appear by name in the Rainmaker but is referred to by Mark Rollins as the old friend he was having lunch with in New York when he first met Bunny Forte.
Harcourt: Mrs. Harcourt is Paul Tillman's secretary in the Puppeteer story.
Herbert Fox: In the Rainmaker, Mr. Fox is identified as the founder of NFocus magazine. The publication's mission was reported to celebrate Nashville's social and charity side. Mark Rollins adds, "...with emphasis on the beautiful people of Belle Meade."
Herbert W. Steward, III: In the Puppeteer, Herb Steward becomes a partner in the law firm of Lansden, Tillman and Hall just before the death of Harold T. (H.T.) Lansden. Lansden death means a monetary windfall for the new partner. Like Lansden and Tillman, Steward is a tall jock. He is also a gambler and lady's man.
Hermes: In Mark Rollins' New Career and the Women's Health Club, (the New Career), Hermes is the joint agency's code name for the head of a Russian criminal enterprise they are charged with bringing down. The god Hermes had many roles in mythology. One of those is as the god of thieves.
Hispanic husband & wife: In the Rainmaker, Ken's crew is reported to include a husband and wife team who has worked on the grounds of the Rollins estate for five years.
Housekeeper: In the Puppeteer, Amber Lansden's housekeeper is Spanish. Her English is limited.
Irene Steelman: In the Rainmaker, Irene Steelman is the missing girlfriend of Kurt Harmond. Harmond, staying in Mexico, has managed to stay beyond the reach of Nashville authorities.
James Z. Welch: In the Rainmaker, James (sometimes referred to as Jimmy) is the oldest of the six ParishWelch partners. After the death of Walter Parish, Welch became the managing partner while Neil Forte took on the more public rainmaking role for the firm.
James Z. Welch: In the Rainmaker, Welch was Neil Forte's predecessor. It was upon his death, and possible murder, that Neil Forte rose in the ranks of the law firm to become its public face.
Jennifer Berson: Jennifer Berson appears in the New Career and is one of the three partners comprising the ownership of New Visions Investments. The other partners are Alexander Kane and the missing Michael Webb.
Jerry Duncan: In the Rainmaker, Duncan is a Nashville policeman assigned security duty at the Nashville International Airport.
Joann Crane: In the New Career, Joann is introduced as quite an athlete and Rollins' golf buddy. She is a former executive with Themis software.
Joseph Marshall: In the New Career, Marshall is the manager of the condo facility where Rob Randall lives. His torture and murder kicks the Webb mystery up another notch.
Judge Hanson: In the New Career, the Judge is Chairman of the Belle Meade Country Club membership committee and owes Rollins a favor.
Ken (no last name given): In the Rainmaker, the Rollins' landscaper is only identified as Ken.
Kevin Mitchell: In the Rainmaker, Kevin is one of two guards on the grounds of the Rollins family estate during the time the Fortes are staying with Mark and Sarah Rollins.
Keith Nelson: In the Puppeteer, Mr. Keith Nelson is the CEO of Hudson Bluff Mortgage. He is a big man who amassed million dollar Wall Street bonuses into an even bigger fortune.
Kurt Harmond: In the Rainmaker, Harmond is an unsavory former Nashville attorney suspected in the disappearance of his live-in girlfriend. He is now practicing law in Mexico beyond the reach of U.S. authorities.
Linda Cunningham: Good friend of Rollins from the Themis Software days. A real meat-potatoes girl, she has dinner with him in Chicago's Capital Grill in the Puppeteer story.
Louise Parish: In the Rainmaker, Louise is the wife of the late James Welch.
Lucius Reed: In the Rainmaker, Reed appears as one of two FBI agents sent by Littleton to provide Mark Rollins with backup.
Marcos & Angeline Fenio: Husband & wife who were enticed into taking out a sub-prime loan from Hudson Bluff Mortgage to refinance their home. In the Puppeteer, the law firm of Lansden, Tillman and Hall are handling the Fenio's suit against Hudson.
Margaret S. Nelson: She is identified as one of the six ParishWelch partners.
Marguerite Weaver: Marguerite is introduced in the New Career as a lunch partner of Sarah Rollins. Their lunch conversation leads Sarah Rollins to conclude that Marguerite is a fan of Michael Webb's investment wizardry.
Marie Gomez: In the Rainmaker, Marie is Bunny Forte's housekeeper.
Marion W. McTate, Esq.: McTate is the managing partner at Curtis Ward's Law firm. Ward, a law firm administrator, is a friend of Owen Santo in the Puppeteer. They are convention buddies.
Master Ajay Palle: In the Rainmaker, the WH Club's number one Yoga instructor is reported to have studied under Master Palle in India. In the Puppeteer Rollins has brought Palle to the states. Sarah's marketing skills make Palle's workshops, Journey to Perfection in Mind and Body with Yoga, a financial success.
Meredith Purcell: In the Puppeteer, Meredith, an administrator, is another convention buddy to Owen Santo. She pays hard and cheats to get her travel expenses paid for by her law firm.
Mr. & Mrs. Steelman: In the Rainmaker, they are the parents of Irene Steelman. Their daughter, the girlfriend of Kurt Harmond, is missing. The Steelmans believe she was killed by Harmond.
Mr. Brown: In the New Career, Mr. Brown is the name Mariko gives to the brown-suited bodyguard accompanying Roberto Greco, Sr. to The Palm restaurant in Nashville.
Mr. Gray: In the New Career, Mr. Gray is the name Mariko gives to the gray-suited bodyguard accompanying Roberto Greco, Sr. to The Palm restaurant in Nashville.
Parker McGovern: McGovern is a homicide detective with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. In the Puppeteer he is the lead detective investigating the death of Harold T. Lansden. He is old school, short and close to retirement.
Paul McVeigh: Referred to as McVeigh and Commander McVeigh, he leads a paramilitary contingent of the Diamond Knights. McVeigh has a prominent role in the New Career. In Mark Rollins and the Rainmaker, (the Rainmaker), he is only referred to as someone with whom Bryan Gray should consult.
Paul Tillman: Tillman is one of the three original partners of the law firm Lansden, Tillman and Hall. In the Puppeteer, he is described as a former college basketball star with a leading man appearance. He is well mannered and gracious but there is something about him--an air of superiority.
Ramiro Melendez: In the Rainmaker, Ramiro is a petty thief who jumps bail in Mexico, and with the help of his attorney, Harmond, migrates to Nashville as an illegal. Melendez is hired to kill attorney Neil Forte, the rainmaker for his law firm.
Raymond Walker, Esq.: Unsavory and unethical attorney defanged by Mark Rollins in the opening chapter of the New Career.
Phillips Townhouse: In the Puppeteer story, Phillips Townhouse is an alias used when Ambers lover checks into an hotel.
Rachel Pappas: She appears for the first time in the Puppeteer story. Pappas is one of the strippers who perform in a Printer Alley night club. She has also been seen on the arm of Herb Steward.
Roberto Greco, Sr.: Greco, Sr. is a third generation head of a U.S. Mafia family based in Newark. While that makes him a bad guy, he is generous to his frends.
Rocky Johnson: Rocky is one of Nashville's famous ghost. In the Puppeteer he is a reported occupant of the law office of Lansden, Tillman and Hall. In the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds the law office was an upscale saloon/whorehouse.
Sam Littleton: An FBI agent in the New Career, Littleton is either head of, or is an influential member of, a joint agency task force. His position within the FBI organization is not clearly identified in the New Career. In the Rainmaker, he is referred to as heading a regional FBI office.
Sandra Beggs: Sandra Beggs is a friend of Devora Small who, in the New Career, tells Devora that the Adams are friends of Al and Tipper Gore.
Starr Barlett: In the Rainmaker, Starr is Neil's nurse at the Baptist Hospital and temporarily moves into the Rollins family estate to help with Neil's recovery.
Tim Norris: In the New Career, Tim Norris is a lieutenant in the Diamond Knights paramilitary organization.
Vicky Harris: In the Rainmaker, this career employee of ParishWelch started as their receptionist and is now the law firm's billing clerk.
Victor Radoejev: Victor Radoejev is a member of Hermes' inner circle. In the New Career, he has responsibility for managing the organization's Russian airport operations. His responsibilities also include operational management of the organization's international squad of contract hit men.
Vincent aka Vinny (last name unknown): Vinny is a driver who works for Mr. Greco, a New Jersey Mafia Don who feels indebted to Mark Rollins. Whenever Mark Rollins travels to New York, he is met by Vinny in his chauffeur uniform. As Vinny says, "Mr. Greco sent me to take care of youse guys."
William Maxwell: In the Puppeteer William (Bill) Maxwell is reported to be a talented senior associate of the law firm of Lansden, Tillman and Hall. Maxwell is a suspect from several angles in the story.
William Vance Kane II: In the Rainmaker, William Kane is one of the six partners in the law firm of ParishWelch.
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