Darkly Dreaming Dexter

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Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He's a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims. But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking similarity to his own style start turning up, Dexter is caught between being flattered and being frightened -- of himself or some other fiend.

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Dexter in print! submitted by ErinDurrett on April 5, 2010, 5:31pm Darkly Dreaming Dexter is the first book in the series about Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department, a fictitious division of Miami-Dade. In almost all aspects of his life, Dexter seems like an everyday guy; good job, spends time with his sister, Deb, has a girlfriend, Rita, and enjoys her kids, Cody and Aster. But there is just one major difference…Dexter is possessed by a “dark passenger” with one compulsion: to kill. But Dexter is unlike his fellow murderers in one regard, he lives by a code, a code that says he can only kill people he determines to be guilty of violent and terrible crimes. This book is much like the first season of the television series “Dexter” in some ways, the characters are all there and share the same personalities with their living/breathing counterparts and the premise of the “Ice Truck Killer” on the show is known as the “Tamiami Butcher” in the book. One big difference is in the ending, where in the book, one of the major characters gets murdered, but lives on in the television series. (I’m not telling you, you’ll have to read the book!) Jeff Lindsay, which is a pen name for writer Jeffrey P. Freundlich whose biggest success is in fact the Dexter series, is great at writing the voice of his darkly dreaming endearing monster (and loves his alliteration too!). He creates a principle character that is so charming you can’t help but love him. Even though I truly enjoyed reading this engrossing tale, I think this is where the adventure stops for me, as I’ve been told the television series (that holds my loyalties) takes a different fork on the road than that of the remainder of the book series. Happy Reading!

Very Fun Read! submitted by amelcher on August 20, 2015, 12:29am Having watched the series I have noticed I assign the show persona to the characters. I really enjoyed the differences from the TV show. I'm going to check out the rest of the books.