Eve Dallas

Eve Dallas is a detective with the New York Police and Security Department. Eve has been a police officer for ten years, despite only being thirty years old. Eve chose to be a police officer in order to have a sense of control over her own life. At the age of eight, Eve was abandoned, apparently by her father, though Eve has very little memory of her life before that point. No one knows Eve's real name or the identity of her family, so they gave her the name Eve Dallas because she was found in Dallas. Eve was raised in the foster care system until she became an adult.

Eve likes to work on cases in the police department despite the difficulties that come with the job. On the night before the novel begins, Eve is forced to kill a man who murdered his daughter in...