Veronica Stirling: Character Analysis

The Naturals:

Veronica Stirling

Stirling first appears in the second book with the intent to shut down The Naturals program. She is clearly against the idea of using teenagers, even if they are just solving cold cases. Although, the main reason she began looking into it is because of the incident with Locke and Cassie. While originally, it seems as if she’s replacing Locke, she’s only doing it to review the program and see if it needs to be shut down or not. Unlike Locke, she doesn’t actually train Cassie and Dean with pictures. She gives them a profiling textbook. Stirling is a lot like Cassie, in the matter that she cares about other people. She cares about the kids and doesn’t want to see them get hurt. It is revealed towards the middle of the book that Stirling was one of Daniel Redding’s victims and Dean Redding assisted in her escape which led to the capture of Daniel Redding. She forces the Naturals to take the PSAT, mostly because they haven’t necessarily been getting a good education. It’s obvious that she doesn’t want them to continue on to jon the FBI, even if it is clear that they would good at it. She’s not necessarily a big part of the third book, as in nothing new is learned about her. For most of the book, her and Briggs are interviewing suspects.

                 Significant Character Relations:

Tanner Briggs: Briggs was Stirling’s old partner, as well as her husband. It is revealed that they split up because of a conflict in how they do things. This is possibly because Briggs began using Dean Redding to help him on cases.

Dean Redding: Agent Stirling was the last woman to be kidnapped by Daniel Redding (undercover) and received help from Dean who helped her escape. This led to the arrest of Daniel Redding.

Cassie Hobbes: At the beginning of the second book, Cassie thought that Stirling didn’t like her but it appears as if it was the opposite. Stirling tells her that she reminds her a lot of herself and that she is different from The Naturals when it comes to how she cares about the victims.