Dexter in the Dark
Original US 2007 Cover
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| Author | Jeff Lindsay |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel, supernatural |
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2007 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | (US) (UK) |
| Preceded by | Dearly Devoted Dexter |
| Followed by | Dexter by Design |
Dexter in the Dark is a 2007 novel written by Jeff Lindsay. This is the third book in the Dexter series, preceded by the 2004 novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter—which formed the basis of the Showtime television series Dexter—and Dearly Devoted Dexter, its 2005 sequel.
Dexter in the Dark was released September 18, 2007, in the United States and October 3, 2007, in the United Kingdom. The book was originally scheduled to be released earlier in the year.
The Season 1 DVD of the television series allows access to the first two chapters of Dexter in the Dark when viewed on a computer.
Dexter Morgan is a serial killer trained by his adoptive father, police detective Harry Morgan, to channel his murderous urges through vigilantism, to only kill other killers. The source of Dexter's blood lust and investigative prowess is a voice in his mind that he calls the "Dark Passenger".
At the start of the novel, Dexter, a forensic blood spatter analyst for the Miami-Dade Police Department, investigates a double homicide at the University of Miami campus. Two female students are found burned and beheaded. Their heads are replaced by the ceramic heads of bulls. Something about this murder uncharacteristically frightens the Dark Passenger into silence, leaving Dexter to solve the crime on his own. As a series of similar murders takes place, members of a mysterious cult begin stalking Dexter, believing his Dark Passenger to be a threat to them.
Dexter soon begins to question the dark voice that has been with him all his life, as he slowly realizes that his Dark Passenger is a true entity unto itself, possibly an offspring of the ancient god Moloch. While attempting to dispatch a killer who had been stalking him, Dexter becomes frightened and is unable to go through with the deed. He soon realizes that the Dark Passenger had given him an unusual amount of confidence and an almost supernatural awareness of the world around him; now that it is gone, he feels vulnerable for the first time in his life.
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