DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER By Jeff Lindsay

Published : 2004
Pages : 275
Overall Mark : 9/10

Dexter Morgan works for the Miami police force as a lab technician, but in his spare time he harbours a dark secret. Dexter is a serial killer, specialising in torturing and murdering people who truly deserve to die, and he manages to cope with all the killings by distancing himself from other people by putting on a façade to hide his natural uncaring state. But when a new serial killer comes to town, one whose techniques Dexter finds attractive and fascinating, he realises that perhaps his murders have gone too far and that this new killer may actually be him acting without his own knowledge…

For a first novel, Jeff Lindsay does done an amazing job with the character of Dexter. By creating a truly likeable lead, despite his penchant for murder, Lindsay has given us a uniquely fascinating insight into the mind of a killer who is actually very likeable, and you’ll even find yourself routing for him at times.