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* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]] - Some of the later books seem to have begun wandering into this area. The idea that justice may be more important than the law isn't too bad itself... but Eve always seems to be the judge of what's justice. Past book thirty or so, she goes from bending the law when it's absolutely necessary to breaking it at will. If she weren't generally presented as unfailingly right, it would almost look like a case of [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]].
** Oh...let's be honest. This trope has been present since the very first book of this series. For Eve, Roarke is this trope. ''Vengeance In Death'' had Eve finding out about some very serious crimes, however justified, committed by her husband. She had to choose between the law or her husband. Take a wild guess on which one she picked. Then there was ''Creation In Death'', which had Eve finding out from the killer that he prepared documents a long time ago that will legally allow him to commit suicide. {{spoiler|She has Roarke erase the documents, and states quite clearly to him that she is crossing the line}}. Of course, the book demonstrated that the killer was a [[Complete Monster]], so Eve's actions could be considered a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and not a [[Moral Event Horizon]]. If it is any consolation, Eve discusses her actions with Roarke in ''Salvation In Death''.
** Eve is a firm believer in the "Blue Wall", a firm dividing line between police and "civilians", and that police are both separate from and should be protected from the general populace. While she hates corrupt cops, she hates the people tasked with catching them just as much, and clearly believes she is separate from and superior to the general populace, to the point where during a period where she's stripped of her badge and faced with the potential of having to ''be'' a "civilian" she becomes borderline suicidal. Eve's mindset is basically the perfect one to breed an authoritarian monster, and it's only [[Purity Sue|the author's assurances of her noble soul]] that keep her from being one.
* [[Purity Sue]]: Troy Trueheart is this, so very much! His purity had a [[Lampshade Hanging]] put onto it more than once. In fact, ''Portrait In Death'' had a guy murdering [[Purity Sue|Purity Sues]] because he truly believed that by doing this, he would absorb the light of their pure souls into himself and never die, as well as show everyone else that they can avoid dying if they did this. Troy Trueheart almost ended up as one of his victims, in case you were wondering.
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]] - Generally every time someone talks about the constitutional right to own a gun. Characters who talk about how other people consider it a basic right were probably intended to come off in a tone of "How quaint", but... well, plenty of people ''do''. It also sort of hurts the book's repeated [[Informed Ability|statements]] that murders are very rare since guns were outlawed, since Eve has a long history of murder investigations under her belt... including multiple ones involving guns. (In fact, it's often mentioned how slammed the homicide division is and that Eve has an investigation backlog.) The book basically acknowledges, seemingly without meaning to, that all the revoking of the second amendment did was make guns exclusive to either the extremely rich or extremely criminal, and force everyone else to kill with methods such as knives and poison.
** The author later tries to address the earlier "oops" of guns being illegal but murder still happening constantly by having Eve protest that, among other things, it's completely eliminated school shootings. Apparently no one informed her that in reality, in countries where such laws already exist, there are still often school ''stabbings''. The case is further undermined by Roberts' having Eve's enemies often armed with homemade blasters to ramp up the action... apparently you can make one of ''those'' with equipment from Radio Shack.
** One novel has another female character claim that Eve attempts to fit in with a male-dominated field by acting like a man and eschewing her femininity. This is presented in such a way that it's supposed to show the character as being shallow and arrogant, and simply using her sex appeal to get by. The thing is, she's right... Eve's desire to avoid anything "girly" often borders on obsession, and until several ''years'' into their marriage she freaks out at Roarke displaying affection for her in public for fear that someone she knows will see and think she's some weak emotional '''woman''' for kissing her husband.
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