Introduced in a previous novel, The Face of Deception, Eve Duncan is a spunky forensic sculptor who suffers from earlier psychological trauma, primarily the death of her daughter, Bonnie. Eve is the most fully realized character in The Killing Game because she does overcome her psychological problems to begin a new life at the end of the novel. She is one of the new women detectives who are not simply shrewd like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, but are physically and emotionally tough also. It is almost as if they are men in disguise, but Johansen allows Eve to be emotional, a dispensation that she sometimes carries too far. For example, after Dom calls Eve the first time, Johansen describes her reaction: Eve slid down the wall to the floor. Cold.
Ice cold.
Oh, God......
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