Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay

Darkly Dreaming Dexter is my favourite kind of book...a free one! Received as a mystery gift from a book club I approached this crime/thriller with some trepidation. It was by Jeff Lindsay, a new author I had never heard of in a genre I find rarely engages. Luckily for me this is not your typical crime/thriller (if it had been I would not have got halfway). This is largely down to the main protagonist of the novel Dexter. This dark anti-hero is a Blood Analyst for the Police and serial killer. Fortunately, he only kills what his Uncle Harry called " The Bad People". Dexter becomes fascinated when; another serial killer announces himself to ...

When writing a novel from a first person point of view you have to make the character, whose mind the reader is stuck in, attractive. In the case of Dexter, this is the case. Dexter is a blood specialist working for the Miami police so part of his role is getting close to grisly crime scenes. However, it is not the job that defines Dexter but his hobby - murder. You see Dexter is a Serial Killer who only kills other Serial Killers. This is meant to make us believe he is not all bad as he only kill those that deserve it. In the case of 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter' a killer is on the loose who likes to chop up women of the night and wrap them in perfect parcels for ...

Darkly dreaming Dexter is the first of the triple set of 'Dexter' books and what a great book it is from the beginning you get a view into the eyes and mind of a serial killer. What's interesting about this novel is that the serial killer is actually a blood splatter expert working for Miami forensics department. Through the book you get one view point from the 'normal' Dexter the law abiding Dexter but then you also get a view point from what Jeff Lindsay describes as 'the dark passenger'. The dark passenger is the other side of Dexter the side that kills but 'the dark passenger' doesn't kill innocent people he sticks to a strict set of rules, which through the book you ...