Characters from The Murderer's Daughters

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Louise 'Lulu' Zachariah Winterson - She takes on a caretaker role for her younger sister from young childhood because her mother is young and does not care for her children as well as she might.

Meredith 'Merry' Zachariah - On the day that her father murdered her mother, she was also stabbed in a failed murder attempt.

Joey Zachariah - He is madly in love with his wife throughout their marriage but stabs her to death when she steals one of his paychecks.

Celeste Zachariah - She is a beautiful woman and has...
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