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"Another beautiful Miami day. Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers." Meet your narrator, Dexter Morgan -- a witty, handsome guy who loves children and lives a quiet, orderly life, working as a blood spatter analyst. He treats his colleagues at the lab to morning doughnuts and eats too many himself, but that's OK as he has a high metabolism -- he says it comes with living the good life. From time to time Dexter helps his adoptive sister Deborah with cases she comes across in her work as an officer in the Miami-Dade police force and to his embarrassment is developing something of a reputation for predicting the moves of serial killers. He ought to know, of course, because he is one. But even that isn't totally inexcusable, as he has focussed on killing only bad guys, 36 so far, and besides, no one seems to have noticed. But now there is another serial killer in town, who is murdering prostitutes and parcelling them up. Dexter, whilst troubled by the similarity to his own modus operandi, is very impressed with the killer's surgical precision, and looks forward to meeting him, but isn't really sure he wants him captured. Deborah, however, has more definite plans; she has been working with the vice squad and hopes this is her chance to get out of hot pants and into homicide, with a little help from her brother's hunches, and Dexter has plenty of those. Disturbingly, he seems to be dreaming of the killer -- detailed dreams that coincide with acts as they happen. The killer somehow knows Dexter and is leaving messages for him in his crimes. He keeps this to himself for the most part, and concentrates on helping Deborah make her mark with the investigation, which means coming head to head with the attractive but incompetent Detective Migdia LaGuerta, master of the one-line put down. Clear an afternoon in your diary and pull the curtains; Jeff Lindsay's DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER is a novel you'll want to read uninterrupted. Gruesome in places, darkly hilarious in others, this is an original and superbly-written debut novel and is highly recommended.
Reviewed by Bridget Bolton, June 2004
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