Dominic Culpepper

Journalist who Strike dislikes, but to whom he offers a story on the day Leonora Quine appears in his office. His cousin, Nina Lascelles, helps Strike steal a copy of Owen’s explosive novel, Bombyx Mori (The Silkworm). Some years later, Dominic, now married, is accused of using his lover to source scurrilous stories about her estranged husband, a cricketer who Strike doesn’t like either (The Running Grave).