After a lucid dream, Dexter drives around Miami and spots a refrigerated truck. Yet, he feels a compelling pull to the killer, due to similar desires. Because of his moral code, Dexter helps Deborah. His adoptive sister, Deborah, who is also on the force and wants to be promoted to Homicide-and knowing that her brother has eerie 'hunches'-asks him for help in solving the case. Dexter calls these rules 'The Code of Harry.'ĭexter succeeds in managing his double life until he investigates the 'Tamiami Slasher,' who has murdered three prostitutes. Harry also taught the boy to be a careful and meticulous killer, to leave no clues, and to be absolutely sure that his victims were guilty before killing them. When accomplished, the voice is placated for a while, but always, eventually returns.įlashbacks reveal that Dexter's foster father, an esteemed police detective named Harry Morgan, recognized early on that he was a violent psychopath with an innate need to kill, and taught him how to kill people who had gotten away with horrific crimes as a way to channel his homicidal urges in a 'positive' direction. Dexter's murders are directed by an inner voice he refers to as 'The Dark Passenger', prodding Dexter to satisfy his homicidal urges on a regular basis. In his spare time, he is a vigilante serial killer who targets murderers, rapists, child molesters and other undesirables he believes the legal system has failed to stop. It formed the basis of the Showtime television series Dexter and won the 2005 Dilys Award and the 2007 Book to TV award.ĭexter Morgan works for the Miami-Dade Police Department as a forensic blood spatter analyst. Darkly Dreaming Dexter is a 2004 novel by Jeff Lindsay, the first in his crime horror series about American forensic analyst/ serial killer Dexter Morgan.

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