Detective Novel Character Profiles
Note: Hi, folks. Today, I’ve got something a little different for you – I thought it might be fun to share the character profiles that I’ve been creating for the detective novel that I’m working on. Read on to find out more!
James Leipfold
Age: 44
Height: 5’6
Weight: 160 lbs
Bio: James is relatively short for a guy, and is somewhat stocky – he has short legs and a big chest, blue eyes and spiky ginger hair, with a receding hairline. He has worry lines on his forehead and is almost always frowning – he rarely smiles and almost never laughs. He’s usually clean shaven, unless he’s fallen off the wagon, and he wears a three-piece suit with no tie and his top button pen.
He has a dark past full of secrets, which show in his haunted expression. After serving a stint in jail for vehicular manslaughter due to accidentally killing a child whilst driving home from the pub, he lost his job on the police force and became a private investigation. He also swore off the booze, though he did it with outside help. He’s also ex-army, though he doesn’t like to talk about it.
Maile O’Hara
Age: 24
Height: 5’5
Weight: 130 lbs
Bio: Maile has shoulder-length black hair with a side fringe, a nose piercing and a lip piercing, as well as plenty of tattoos – wings across her chest, a sleeve on her right arm, and a string of binary on her leg, which represents the ten digits of pi. She wears lots of black, alternative clothing, with either leggings or denim jeans, and a bunch of bracelets around her wrists. She usually wears big black boots – knee highs.
Maile doesn’t have a problem with authority, but she’s not afraid to challenge it if she disagrees. She knows her own mind and she speaks it, both online and off. She’s very good at using computers, and can indulge in low-level hacking, but her main speciality is doxing. She’s dedicated to her job, but works hours to suit her – she’s often late, something that Leipfold has learned to put up with.
Jack Cholmondeley
Age: 52
Height: 5’9
Weight: 155 lbs
Bio: Cholmondeley is a lifer in the police force, who has mixed feelings about his upcoming retirement. He appreciates that police work has changed in his lifetime and that he’s no longer at the top of his game, but he finds it hard to let go. He’s afraid of retirement because his job defines him.
He has short white hair with a receding hairline, and his staff affectionately call him ‘Cueball’, though not to his face. He has hazel eyes and is always clean-shaven. At work, he wears a pinstripe suit with a tie, and he wears a hat to hide his bald spot when he ventures out from the station. A proud man, whose career, reputation and integrity mean everything to him. He has a wife, who he refers to as ‘her indoors’, called ‘Mary’.
Tom Townsend
Age: 31
Height: 6’2
Weight: 190 lbs
Bio: Tom is a third-generation British Asian, with a Welsh father and a Pakistani mother. He looks like an Asian version of Kevin Webster from Coronation Street – short black hair, and hazel eyes with bags around them. He doesn’t sleep much because of his job as a Theatre Manager. He’s clean-shaven and usually wears a white vest with jeans and a hoodie, exposing a tuft of chest hair.
Tom seems pleasant enough at first, but he has a ruthless streak – he’ll do what he needs to do to achieve his goals. He’s also a charmer with a gift for words, a ladies’ man.
Jowie Frankowska
Age: 26
Height: 5’7
Weight: 130 lbs
Bio: Jowie is a Latin American cleaner, who displays all of the fire and passion of an Argentinian whilst literally cleaning up people’s shit. She’s ambitious and goes to evening classes to retrain as a financial analyst, whilst working hard to support herself. Her biggest fear is that she might have to move back to her family’s farm in Argentina.
Jowie has a slim build and tanned (but not Hispanic!) skin, and she usually wears heels to make herself look taller, even when she’s cleaning. She usually wears dresses or a smart blouse with trousers, and she has hazel eyes and long black hair, which she usually ties up.
