

In Proven Guilty, Murphy admits to being attracted to Harry Dresden, but is unwilling to act on it. My world would be a scarier place without you in it.

Her relationship with Kincaid is disrupted by her burgeoning romantic feelings towards Dresden. At the end, Murphy has an odd look on her face as she watched Kincaid, wounded but looking rather paternal, crawl in next to the wounded Ivy, with his Glock. Dresden believes it's that Murphy's detachment from Kincaid that keeps her able to be close to him. She thinks it's stupid to get hung up on him since he's not interested in getting serious. Later, she says it hurt to see him that way, but she is not sure how involved she is. In Small Favor, Murphy is very distraught over how badly wounded Kincaid is after engaging the Denarians at the Shedd Aquarium. Though Murphy appears only briefly in the book, Dresden's actions are prompted by his desire to protect her from blackmail. In Dead Beat, Karrin Murphy went on a sex-loaded vacation to Hawaii with Jared Kincaid, making Harry Dresden quite jealous. She does not get along with her ex-husband. In Proven Guilty, Rich (now called Rick) is an FBI agent called in to assist the Homicide Department in the SplatterCon!!! case by Detective Greene and aids him in questioning Molly Carpenter.

Rich is a police detective in New Orleans and is getting transferred to the Chicago FBI to be near Lisa and her family. Murphy flips when she finds out that Rich is engaged to marry her kid sister, Lisa Murphy. He felt she was ignoring him for her job she thought he wanted her to stay at home so she wouldn't make him look bad at work and was using the excuse of wanting to have kids as a rationalization. In Blood Rites, Murphy reveals that she had been married to Rich at some point, but were divorced. She regretted not having been able to say good-bye. He had not told her about his illness, and she was devastated when learning of his death by discovering his obituary in the Tribune newspaper. Her ex-husband died, 43 years old, at night, after a long fight against cancer. Some time later, Taggart left her they tried to reconcile a few times, but it always ended in fighting. In Summer Knight, it comes out that when she was seventeen years old, she married Gregory Taggart, who Harry Dresden estimates to be about a decade older. She is also aware that he suspects the existence of a Black Council.

She's one of the few people privy to Thomas Raith being Dresden's half-brother and Margaret Angelica being his daughter. Murphy is listed as executor on Dresden's bank lock box, and is entrusted with seeing to the care of his daughter. Īfter Harry Dresden died, she has become far more paranoid. Her father's nickname for her was Karrie, and the only other person to call her that is Henry Rawlins, who Collin Murphy saved once from a demon with a shotgun loaded with rock salt. Murphy is a nominal Catholic, as is her family. She owns a house in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago a small house left to her by her grandmother. Ĭollin Murphy was a senior detective in the Chicago PD and an investigator in the Black Cat Department, covering the same territory as the modern-day S.I. She likes coffee with no cream and two sugars. She is short-statured, blonde and blue-eyed. She has at least two brothers and one sister, Lisa. Karrin Murphy is the oldest child of Marion and Collin Murphy. That’s my Murphy, manufacturing her own damned silver lining when the clouds didn’t cough one up.
