DEXTER IS DELICIOUS

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. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2010]