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Title details for Dexter Is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay - Available

Dexter Is Delicious

#5 in series

by Jeff Lindsay
Jeff Lindsay
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America’s most-read, most-watched, and most­ beloved serial killer—Dexter Morgan—is back. After selling more than one million copies and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet.
Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his dark urges in check by adhering to one stead­fast rule . . . he only kills very bad people. But now Dexter is experiencing some major life changes—don’t we all?—and they’re mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals. And, most disturbing . . . these people have decided they would really like to eat Dexter.
Jeff Lindsay’s bestselling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our cul­ture.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Dexter

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    September 7, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307739179
      • File size: 326191 KB
      • Duration: 11:19:33

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 20, 2010
      Authors are often poor narrators of their work—happily this is not the case with Jeff Lindsay, who brings a perfect performance to the narration of his latest novel starring Dexter, the charismatic, sociopathic serial killer. Life for Dexter has taken a major turn. He is now the father of a new baby daughter, Lily Anne, and this extraordinary event has him putting away his knives and duct tape and vowing to extinguish the dark murderous flame that has flared inside him for so long. But some vows are easier kept than others, and when he becomes involved in the investigation of a possible cult of cannibals, it's just possible that he will be drawn back to being the dark Dexter of old. Lindsay's wry reading proves that he knows Dexter and his world better than anyone. With a clear, controlled voice, he pulls the listener into the story, keeping the tone light even when describing the grisliest scenes, but he's more than capable of conveying danger and suspense. With material that alternates dizzyingly between the disturbing and humorous, listeners will cringe and chuckle from beginning to end. A Doubleday hardcover.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Who better than author Jeff Lindsay to delve into the wicked, twisted psyche of Dexter Morgan? The Miami Police blood spatter analyst is also a serial killer. (He kills only those who deserve to die.) In Lindsay's voice the listener hears the diabolical delight Dexter takes in murdering his victims. Lindsay is also a master at evoking the chilling menace of Dexter's emotionless inner conversations, which many are familiar with from the popular Showtime series. In this story Dexter is hot on the trail of vampires and cannibals who are wreaking various forms of havoc and kidnapping people. While Dexter attends to his "Dark Passenger" side, he stumbles upon one grisly crime scene after another, which add up to grim ritualistic behavior. Dexter is also coping with new fatherhood, a development that creates an emotional disconnect from the dark impulses at his core. Lindsay, who resides--at least while writing--in Dexter's demented head, performs with appropriately gruesome irony from beginning to end. A.W. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from July 12, 2010
      Lindsay's fifth thriller featuring Dexter Morgan (after Dexter by Design) brilliantly combines suspense and gallows humor. Dexter, a blood splatter analyst for the Miami-Dade PD, seriously considers giving up his secret life as a killer of serial killers after the birth of his first child, Lily Anne. Then Dexter's police sergeant sister, Deborah, calls him to the scene of a possible kidnapping, the bedroom of 18-year-old Samantha Aldovar, a student at a fancy private school. The quantity of fresh blood in the room, "like a large animal had exploded," suggests that the missing Samantha must already be dead, but it's Samantha's friend and classmate, Tyler Spanos, who turns up a cannibalized corpse. When it appears that one of those responsible for Tyler's horrible end will evade justice, Dexter finds it harder to turn over a new leaf. Readers will look forward to seeing the further impact of fatherhood on Lindsay's highly original protagonist in the next installment.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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