Since Johansen uses three genres, her book is rooted in three separate literary traditions. The mystery is the primary genre in this book, and Johansen continues the tradition of logical thought proposed by Edgar Allan Poe in his groundbreaking mystery stories "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter." In this type of mystery, the detective applies logic to the situation to get past the red herrings to the truth. In her disquisition at the end of the novel, Eve says her incarceration for a couple of days allowed her to logically reconstruct the clues, and she arrived at the killer's identity. Poe's "ratiocinative" method was used by Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes series and by the queen of mysteries, Agatha Christie, in all of her books. Christie, above all, knew that reading a mystery is a game of detection, and the...