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Dexter By Design is Jeff Lindsay's fourth book that follows Dexter, a Miami PD blood splatter analyst by day and murderer by night. Traumatised as a child by the gruesome murder of his mother, he was saved from becoming a psychopathic killer by his adoptive step father, cop Harry Morgan, who instead taught him to be a focused killer who only targets seriously bad people who have managed to swerve the law. Although you should dislike Dexter's character, Lindsay has moulded him into a dark hero, ridding the world of evil people. In this fourth book Dexter is back from his honeymoon in Paris and married life is treating him well. But old habits die hard and soon his job offers temptations he just can resist. A terrifying new serial killer is on the loose and he has a peculiar method of expressing his art. Using bodies as canvases and even filling their emptied cavities with tropical fruit, this crazed killer is out of control and it's time Dexter sharpened his knifes and got back to business! Read More

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  • David Stone30 August 2009

    Dexter by Design is the fourth book in Jeff Lindsay's series about a friendly neighbourhood serial killer and is a real return to form for Lindsay after the disappointing third book in the series, Dexter in the Dark. Dexter Morgan is most often described as a vigilante serial killer meaning that, in theory at least, he only kills bad guys (and gals). When he's not busy killing people, Dexter works as a blood-splatter expert for the Miami police and does his best to appear a regular guy, the most recent step in his pursuit of normality being his marriage to long-term and incredibly trusting girlfriend Rita. While on honeymoon in Paris, Dexter and Rita witnessed a bizarre example of performance art where the artist amputated her own leg and this disturbing spectacle is echoed in the first crime scene that Dexter is called out to after he returns home, a gruesome tableau involving two mutilated corpses displayed so as to parody the area's tourist trade has been discovered on the beach. While investigating this latest killer to torment the people of Miami, Dexter's sister Deborah Morgan is stabbed by the killer and so Dexter joins forces with Deborah's boyfriend ex-CIA agent Chutsky to track down her attacker before he can strike again. The Dexter books may seem quite controversial since the hero is actually a serial killer but Jeff Lindsay has written the character of Dexter Morgan in such a way that he is very understandable and easy to sympathise with even though some of what he does is shocking. The books certainly don't glorify serial killers since Dexter often has angst over what he does and would much rather be normal, even he is only partly convinced by the idea that it is ok to kill killers. Dexter by Design might not have been the most realistic of stories but I really enjoyed it, there was just the right amount of tension, comedy and the macabre.

  • Amazon

    The most likeable serial killer on the block is back...

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    Being a blood spatter analyst who hates the sight of blood has always made Dexter's work for the Miami PD tough. But it means he's very neat when it comes to his out-of-hours hobby: murder. Of course the fact Dexter only kills bad people helps too. Now Dex is facing a disturbing situation. He's used to blood at work and blood when he's out with the dark passenger (the voice that guides him on his deadly outings). But he's not sure what to make of the man who says blood is art. Using bodies as his canvas someone is out there expressing themselves in the most lethal and painful of ways. If Dexter's to escape the scalpel and avoid becoming the latest exhibit he needs somewhere to run...and he might just have found the perfect place. With his wedding looming completing his nice-guy disguise Dexter's honeymoon might just save his skin. From the most original voice in crime fiction DEXTER BY DESIGN is an enthralling macabre and gruesomely entertaining thriller.

  • BookDepository

    Dexter by Design : Paperback : Orion Publishing Co : 9780752884615 : : 20 Aug 2009 : The most likeable serial killer on the block is back... As seen on TV - DEXTER: NEW BLOOD - major new drama

  • 0752884611
  • 9780752884615
  • Jeff Lindsay
  • 20 August 2009
  • Orion
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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