Beatrice

Beatrice was a lesser fae found murdered near the kitchens in the Unseelie sithen.

Meredith invited human police in to solve the murders of Beatrice, and a member of the human press who had wandered away from a press conference. A sidhe lord, Gwennin, was brought before the Queen for casting a spell on Biddy who was half human. The spell was supposed to spread to human police officers who were investigating murders and make them weaker and unable to complete their task.

Gwennin was revealed to have been the one who killed Beatrice and the reporter. Beatrice had been his lover, but when she finally refused him, he stabbed her. He claimed he hadn't meant to kill her, just to hurt her. But he stabbed her in her back piercing her heart. It was speculated that the weakened state of faerie magic caused it to be a mortal wound despite that the murder weapon was a mundane dagger. The human reporter had to die because he was a witness.