Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (2005).
The weirdest detective of entire world.
The true justice who turns villains into victims,
literally chops them off into pieces,
sending them to what he called “Dreamland”.
Very very Cool.
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layers. – Dexter Morgan. The world’s only known serial killer.
Since all the serial
killers try really hard to hide their activities, it requires true
Sherlock-like ability to track them down and that's what our man Dexter has: uncanny sense to identify the fellow serial killers.
He has a day job
working as a forensic in Miami Police Dept. Being a serial killer himself, he excels
at his job as a blood analyst. At night, he turns into his other self, Dark
Passenger.
Due to an unbelievable
insanity in his early age (bloody murder tragedy), he is completely devoid of
emotion/empathy and is well aware of it. Therefore, whatever expression he
wears on his face is carefully prepared acting, a complete fake!!
Because of this,
Dexter is constantly debating in his head what kind of FACE he has to flash on
his face or what to say depending on the situations.
He collects a drop of
blood from his “PLAYMATES (victims)” to small glass panels, and the collection
reaches 42 at the end of this book. For our delights, Miami is flourishing with
psychopaths!!
Harry Morgan. Dexter’s step father. He adopted Dexter at 7
and being a great cop, immediately found out Dexter’s need. Once he realized
there was no way to deter Dexter’s taste, he trained Dexter to channel his urge
toward only certain kind of people, people
who could not be reached by the law. Dexter calls it Harry’s Law and follows it
religiously no matter what.
He loved Dexter and
truly cared for him and is the only reason why Dexter is surviving in this
world.
Dexter only puts on a
human face because he wants to be like Harry.
Debora. Dexter’s sister. The
only living human being who knows what Dexter is made out of.
Like her father, Harry, she is good/tough cop.
Rita. Dexter’s girl friend and a
future wife. A mother of two: Cody(6) and Astor(8).
At some point in his “fake” human life, Dexter realized that in order to
look normal, he needed a girl friend for cover and he found a perfect answer in
Rita who was as much damaged inside as Dexter.
Sergeant Doakes. Every
superhero needs archenemy and he is Dexter’s. A cop, but a cold killer inside.
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lace. – Miami, the land where
everyone comes to die, according to Dexter.
Hot and humid air and
party-every-night atmosphere is just perfect for Dexter and his Night-Dance.
Also, being a center
for drug trafficking business in East-coast helps Dexter find his next playmates
relatively easy because there are unlimited supply of weirdoes and monsters and
pedophiles and on and on….
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lot. – There is a new and brilliant
serial killer in town whose technique makes even mighty Dexter jealous.
All Dexter wants to do
is track down the killer and “play” with him, but the story gets complicated
when a hot shot FBI agent who is here to take care of the killer starts dating
with his sister and his archenemy Sergeant Doakes is on his trail 24/7.
So Dexter has to
suppress his urge and learn to work with Debora’s boy friend(FBI) and also acts
like normal human in front of Doakes’ surveillance. On top of this, Dexter has
to catch the killer before FBI’s so that he can have true fun with him. This
book is so good.
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erdict. –A truly remarkable work of art.
A reverse Sherlock
Holmes who locates and kills his client before he/she inflicts more damages to
the society. Sherlock tracks down the bad guys and put them away in jail,
whereas Dexter makes takeout menus out of bad guys and put them away in his
secret burying ground under the sea. And they are both awesome.
Much funnier and
darker than TV series.
Dexter’s view of
society and human behavior is so completely off the mark, yet accurate, in
spite of all the gore, this could be the funniest mystery I’ve ever read.
Serious.
