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Dark side to Dexter!

Mar 28 2008 by Val Javin, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

DEXTER Morgan is a Miami forensic officer who specialises in blood spatter pattern analysis. His foster sister is cop Deborah Morgan and he shares a platonic relationship with a shy girlfriend because she is still traumatised by a bad experience with another man. This suits Dexter as he finds it difficult with emotions.

Colleagues and associates see him as a regular guy who is also very good at helping to solve murders. But then, he should be, seeing as he himself has murdered 36 people.

This wonderfully conceived thriller with its strange serial killer hero was first published in 2004. It’s republished to tie in a TV adaptation on ITV. A terrific book, great observations and black humour, and a lead character it’s impossible not to like.

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