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'A most welcome return for Dexter Morgan... Clever and wonderfully incorrect, the adventures of Dexter are a delight for all those who like their crime fiction just that little bit twisted.' (Maxim Jakubowski GUARDIAN )
'Even better than the first... Dexter's a great new hero.' (SUNDAY SPORT )
'Fast, furious and darkly funny, Lindsay is one of the most original writers in contemporary crime fiction.' (DAILY EXPRESS ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'Even better than the first... Dexter's a great new hero.' (SUNDAY SPORT )
'Fast, furious and darkly funny, Lindsay is one of the most original writers in contemporary crime fiction.' (DAILY EXPRESS ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'A most welcome return for Dexter Morgan... Clever and wonderfully incorrect, the adventures of Dexter are a delight for all those who like their crime fiction just that little bit twisted.' -- Maxim Jakubowski GUARDIAN 'Even better than the first... Dexter's a great new hero.' SUNDAY SPORT 'Fast, furious and darkly funny, Lindsay is one of the most original writers in contemporary crime fiction.' DAILY EXPRESS
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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This is the second book about Dexter, a forensic lab technician and a murderer - but only of bad guys. That is the simplistic version of the plot, but what a wonderful series this is! Dexter is, well, lovable. Quite a feat for a character who doesn't feel love, but has somehow found himself with a girlfriend (now fiancee in a hilarious turn of events) and a sister that he feels a certain responsibility towards helping. We stumble through horrendous murders with Dexter helping to find the bad guys, whilst fantasising about commiting a murder or two of his own. The crimes are horrible, the characters fantastic the book was read too fast. More please! Loved it - read this book and the previous title, because you won't be disappointed. Truly original and one liners that will make you cringe!!!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Poor Dexter. All he wants to do is chop up a pedophile who has a taste for killing young boys and the whole world is scheming to keep him from his one true love... killing. The problem starts with Sergeant Doakes, a fellow officer in the Miami Police Department. Doakes has looked into Dexter's soul and has seen something he didn't like so he has been following poor Dexter everywhere. So Dexter has been hanging around with his girlfriend Rita, drinking beer on her couch, and playing hangman with Rita's kids.
Meanwhile, a new monster has decided to settle into Miami and Dexter's sister is dragging Dexter into another case. This new monster's crimes are so horrific that even Dexter is enthralled with them. But being dragged around to help Deborah's new boyfriend crack this case isn't exactly Dexter's idea of fun. And off we go on another adventure with the only likable serial killer in the world.
Once again we find ourselves rooting for the serial killer and once again Jeff Lindsay has written a fast-paced, fun, and funny (unless you get nightmares easily) book. Just as in the first book, the second in the series is written in the first person which lets us pal around with Dexter and become part of his inner thoughts. And his inner thoughts are quite humorous. Dexter knows he isn't quite human which leaves him sometimes guessing about the things that humans actually think and mean when they speak. For example, the idea that the female police officer who stammers and blushes everytime she sees him has a crush on him simply never enters his mind. He simply can't understand why anyone could love a monster like him.
The best parts of the book are all things that I won't tell you because I don't want to ruin the fun. Let's just say that poor Dexter gets a lot more put upon then he ever wanted. And although I hate to use cliches too much, this book is really laugh-out-loud funny (just ask my daughter who was in the back seat while we waited for my wife to come out of the store) and a page-turner. I had to pick this book up and keep reading at every opportunity. Is this book perfect? No, there are a few holes in the story here and there but the story moves so quickly they are hard to notice. I can't wait for the next book in the series.
Meanwhile, a new monster has decided to settle into Miami and Dexter's sister is dragging Dexter into another case. This new monster's crimes are so horrific that even Dexter is enthralled with them. But being dragged around to help Deborah's new boyfriend crack this case isn't exactly Dexter's idea of fun. And off we go on another adventure with the only likable serial killer in the world.
Once again we find ourselves rooting for the serial killer and once again Jeff Lindsay has written a fast-paced, fun, and funny (unless you get nightmares easily) book. Just as in the first book, the second in the series is written in the first person which lets us pal around with Dexter and become part of his inner thoughts. And his inner thoughts are quite humorous. Dexter knows he isn't quite human which leaves him sometimes guessing about the things that humans actually think and mean when they speak. For example, the idea that the female police officer who stammers and blushes everytime she sees him has a crush on him simply never enters his mind. He simply can't understand why anyone could love a monster like him.
The best parts of the book are all things that I won't tell you because I don't want to ruin the fun. Let's just say that poor Dexter gets a lot more put upon then he ever wanted. And although I hate to use cliches too much, this book is really laugh-out-loud funny (just ask my daughter who was in the back seat while we waited for my wife to come out of the store) and a page-turner. I had to pick this book up and keep reading at every opportunity. Is this book perfect? No, there are a few holes in the story here and there but the story moves so quickly they are hard to notice. I can't wait for the next book in the series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Dexter Morgan knows exactly why monstrous serial killers do what they do - because Dexter is himself a serial killer, even if he confines his chopping up of bodies to child killers and other unpleasant murderers who have somehow escaped justice. He tells us cheerfully that he likes nothing more than a long night with his very sharp knives and a helpless, bound victim. And he works for the Miami homicide police as a blood spatter analyst (he ought to know). Every instinct told me to disapprove of this book and to condemn its flippancy about depravity but, dammit, Dexter has a way of er. . . getting under your skin, and making you like him. His one-liners are exquisitely funny (in a very dark way) and the plots are excellent - to the extent that I rushed out to buy the first Dexter book before writing this review. In this second outing, Dexter is forced to team up with his nemesis, the forbidding Sergeant Doakes, to track down a hideous monster who spends weeks torturing his victims. Dexter is the most original sleuth to have appeared for years, and sharp as a razor. . .
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Sick, which can be both a recommendation and warning
This is possibly the goriest novel I've read, and I read Cormac McCarthy. It certainly features the cruelest torture method I've seen in a novel. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jack Heslop
clever and very funny
Dearly Devoted Dexter is the second in Jeff Lindsay's Dexter series. Dexter Morgan, the serial killer with a conscience, is spending time at his girlfriend Rita's, acting like a... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Cloggie Downunder
An irrating read
This book to me was self-indulgent by the author. It felt as though it was more important for him to write about Dexter rather than the story itself, which was highly irrating. Read more
Published 7 months ago by B.N
Does Dexter Have a Heart?
In most cases the book is better than the film, but in the case of `Dexter' it is perhaps the outstanding TV show that has outpaced the books. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Sam
Great Condition, Fast Delivery.
Really good condition for used a copy, the picture displayed is not the same cover but that doesn't make any difference to me. It was a fast delivery. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Sophie F
still on form and quite horrible!
Here the books really do diverge from the TV series. The crimes committed here were probably too horrific to broadcast...certainly very nasty. Read more
Published 8 months ago by H. Pettifer
Devilishly Different Dexter
Our Anti-Hero is back for another book, and if you're thinking the book is going to be like number 2 of the Hit TV Series, think again, because Dexter is rolling with the punches! Read more
Published 15 months ago by Ms. L. J. Braisby
Dearly Devoted Dexter Review
An amazingly written book about a murder in the twenty-first century, who uses its knowledge in forensic science to help him figure out who his next victim is as he loves to kill... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Reader
Chilling and brilliant!
I read the first of the Dexter books and loved it so got the second in the series which lives up to expectations. Read more
Published 16 months ago by kt1982
Excellent Condition
I was very pleased when I recieved this book because of the condition it was in. Perfect! and it arrived to me very quickly as well!
Published 17 months ago by Shab
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