From that point on, the Tamiama Slasher begins sending messages to Dexter, who feels a kinship to the killer.

At one point, Dexter follows a car from which the killer throws a decapitated head at him. She knows he has good hunches and needs his help in catching the Tamiama Slasher, who has already struck thrice. This is what Dexter names “The Code of Harry”.ĭexter’s life is rolling along when his sister Deb asks him for help with the serial murders of prostitutes. Harry taught Dexter to leave no evidence or clues and be absolutely sure that the people are guilty before he kills them. But nobody knows more about double lives, or how to recognize a killer, than Dexter. Rather than discourage Dexter or try to change him, Harry teaches Dexter to channel his need to kill into more appropriate subjects: murderers, rapists, and general predators upon humans that are never caught, brought to justice, or indeed even suspected of being anyone else than the people they pretend to be in their double lives. The dark passenger constantly has a thirst for blood, and once Dexter satisfies this thirst, the dark passenger recedes for a little while but always comes up demanding blood again.ĭexter’s foster father Harry Morgan was a police detective who recognized the traits that young Dexter had as being those of a sociopath. Dexter Morgan has been grappling with the presence in his mind, a dark and evil presence that he called his “dark passenger”. Darkly Dreaming Dexterĭexter Morgan is your every day, run of the mill forensic blood spatter expert except for one thing. Because of his father’s teachings and his occupation, Dexter knows the perfect methods in which to dispose of and cover up his little hobby. Dexter specializes in killing other murders, rapists, and bad people, channeling his urge to kill into taking out only those who are threats to other humans. But he doesn’t just murder any kind of people. That’s because in his spare time, he’s a sociopathic serial killer who murders people. When he’s not living his alias as mild mannered, forensic expert Dexter Morgan, Dexter is up to plenty of hijinks. The series follows Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood spatter pattern expert analyst for the Miami-Dade Police Department.

His first book in the Dexter series was published in 2004 and was called “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” as opposed to the title his daughter suggested, “Pinocchio Bleeds”.

Dexter is the main character of the suspenseful, intriguing novels by Jeff Lindsay.

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