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Dexter Is Delicious

by Jeff Lindsay

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  • Published Sep 2010
    368 pages
    Genre: Thrillers

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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.

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"Lindsay's fifth thriller featuring Dexter Morgan (after Dexter by Design) brilliantly combines suspense and gallows humor." - Publishers Weekly

"With the Showtime series continuing to receive rave reviews, more readers than ever will be drawn to this series. And with this one they will not be disappointed." - Library Journal

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Dexter is Delicious is the fifth of the Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay. Dexter, new father of Lily Anne, is dazed to find he no longer interested in indulging his Dark Passenger’s needs: a bit of a dilemma as Astor and Cody still need mentoring for their own needs. This new Dexter would, ideally, like to steer them in a benign direction. Cody’s insistence that someone is watching them proves right when Dexter’s brother Brian turns up, seeming all affable and family-oriented, and this can’t possibly be good, can it? And work is proving interesting, with a couple of missing teenagers, one of whom turns up roasted and eaten, prompting ideas of vampires and cannibals. Deborah is behaving quite strangely, distracted, perhaps, by the ticking of her biological clock, rather louder since Lily Anne’s debut into the world. This instalment has Dexter hanging out in a nightclub refrigerator, a boarded-up trailer and an abandoned amusement park at dusk; all the while we are entertained by Dexter’s glib tongue and ready wit. The conversation inside the refrigerator is priceless. The reader is treated to vivid imagery and Lindsay is the master of juxtaposition of the incongruous. As always, Lindsay gives us sharp dialogue and an original plot with some twists I didn’t see coming. I look forward to reading Double Dexter.

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Jeff Lindsay Author Biography

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Jeff Lindsay is the pen name of American playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich. He is best known for his novels featuring sociopathic vigilante Dexter Morgan, who was also the inspiration for the hit Showtime and CBS series Dexter.

He has written several novels featuring Dexter, some of which include Dexter by Design (2009), Dexter Is Delicious (2010), Double Dexter (2011), Dexter's Final Cut (2013), and Dexter Down Under (2014).

He lives in South Florida with his wife and three daughters.

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