The Seventh Sacrament

Principal Characters

Pino Gabrielli, warden of the Piccolo Museo del Purgatorio

Nic Costa, an agente in the Rome Questura

Gianni Peroni, a fellow agente

Leo Falcone, Costa and Peroni’s inspector

Teresa Lupo, chief pathologist

Emily Deacon, Costa’s partner

Raffaella Arcangelo, Falcone’s partner

Ornella Di Benedetto, warden of the church of Santa Maria dell’Assunta

Rosa Prabakaran, a junior police agente

Bruno Messina, police commissario over Leo Falcone

Arturo Messina, Bruno’s father, now retired from the police in disgrace

Enzo Uccello, a criminal on release

Beatrice Bramante, former wife of Giorgio, mother of Alessio

Dino Abati, a homeless man

Prinzivalli, a police sovrintendente

Silvio Di Capua, Teresa Lupo’s deputy

Cristiano, a biologist specialising in worms

Judith Turnhouse, an archaeologist

Lorenzo Lotto, a left-wing aristocrat and magazine owner

Alessio Bramante, a schoolboy

Giorgio Bramante, his father, an archaeologist

Ludo Torchia, Toni LaMarca, Dino Abati, Sandro Vignola, Andrea Guerino, Elisabetta Giordano, Bernardo Giordano, and Raul Bellucci, students under Giorgio Bramante

Leo Falcone, a police sovrintendente

Arturo Messina, police commissario over Leo Falcone