| | |  | | Home » Double Dexter: A Novel | | | | | | | Description: | | “Like a breath of fresh air blowing across all crime-novel conventions, there is Dexter.” —Time
Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department . . . but he lives for his nighttime hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him, and copying his methods. Dexter is not one to tolerate displeasure . . . in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way.
Like the previous five best-selling novels in the Dexter series, Double Dexter showcases the witty, macabre originality that has propelled Jeff Lindsay to international success. Double Dexter is raucously entertaining . . . full of smart suspense and dark laughs. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Jeff Lindsay | | Hardcover:
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| Doubleday | | Publication Date:
| October 18, 2011 | | Language:
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8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Dull DexterNov 11, 2011
By makeham98
With the exception of "Dexter in the Dark", I've been at least entertained by all of the Dexter books. While this one I enjoyed overall, it is slow and uneventful, and falls short in a number of ways.
Is author Lindsay so bored in his own life that he has written a book that gives us a Dexter annoyed by the mundane parts of family life? Is he trying to justify copying the direction of the tv series and get rid of Rita? She has no redeeming qualities at all in this story.
The background of the antagonist is contradictory, with identity issues that an angry ex would have revealed long ago, as well as his former employer. Made no sense.
And less plausible is the ending, where Dexter takes a highly visible action at a tourist site yet no one - no one - used a camera to take his photo. And like a bad slasher film, the ultimate end to the antagonist is hammered into your head about 10 pages before it happens. You just read the obvious "clue" and wait for it to happen.
The always ominous presence of Brian is a welcome difference from the tv series, but wasted here.
Again, weak Dexter is better than no Dexter. This was weak.
14 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 "Had I truly lost my edge?"Oct 23, 2011
By E. Bukowsky
"booklover10"
For quite some time, first-person narrator Dexter Morgan has been juggling multiple roles: husband and father of two stepchildren and a beautiful baby girl, Lily Anne; blood spatter expert for the Miami-Dade Police Department; and ruthless vigilante who stalks individuals whom he is convinced need killing. He slices and dices his victims and keeps a slide with a drop of their blood as a souvenir. Dexter has executed over fifty people to date without being caught. Whatever could go wrong?
As it turns out, quite a few things can and do go wrong. One, someone spots Dexter doing his dastardly deed to a suspected pedophile. Two, Rita, Dexter's wife, has been acting strangely of late; she's drinking far too much wine and appears more agitated than usual. Worst of all, from Dexter's viewpoint, is that Rita has stopped serving him delicious home-cooked dinners! Chauvinist Dexter is willing to change a diaper, but he is not big on meal preparation. While Dexter spends hours surreptitiously looking for the witness who is now threatening to destroy him, Rita is becoming ever more jumpy; Dexter fears that his career, marriage, and freedom may be in danger.
In "Double Dexter," by Jeff Lindsay, the usually unflappable Dexter is showing signs of strain. Just when he needs to "stay icy calm and in complete control," he is beginning to fall apart. In the past, he was a consummate actor who could fake being human without much effort; now, he is distracted, irritable, and anxious. Making matters worse, "a maniac with a sledgehammer" has been battering cops to a pulp. Dex's sister, the foul-mouthed and aggressive Sergeant Deborah Morgan, demands that her brother use his forensic wizardry and amateur profiling skills to help her nab the perpetrator.
Lindsay again combines his unique and grotesque blend of satirical humor, puns, gore, and mayhem in "Double Dexter." Although Dexter insists that he has no feelings, when he holds his baby girl, he is filled with affection; when he sees the bodies of cops who had been savagely assaulted, he is repelled; and he is genuinely fearful that someone will expose his "hobby" and blow his cover. It seems that in spite of his protestations, Dexter does have emotions, and maybe even a bit of a conscience, although he would never acknowledge it. The plot is a bit of a mishmash involving an assortment of domestic and work-related crises, an attempt to frame our hero, and Dexter's inevitable showdown with his adversary. However, the real enjoyment lies in seeing the world through Dexter's twisted perspective. We wonder how much longer he will be able to balance his career, family life, and the occasional act of carnage.
16 of 21 found the following review helpful:
Double the Dexter, Double the fun in Lindsays new thriller!Oct 18, 2011
By B-Goody
This Dexter saga/case is much more 'Delicious' than his last. Jeff Lindsay has brought more character to Dexter by giving us an idea of his family life; Rita's craziness, dealing with Astor and her braces and of course their new member, Lily Anne(in the Showtime series it's Harrison). As well as emotion and feelings? The rest of the cast is great with Vince at his best as well as his brother Brian who I'm starting to like. Of course there's a case, but I don't want to give it away. Reading this I swear I had Michael C Hall's killer dialogue in my head and Lindsay has reached the top of his skills giving us his best Dex book yet. Well thought out with a story that will keep you turning the pages. Don't pass this up, even if you disliked the last few or thought that they were a bit lackluster. It's so worth it. And oh yeah, Cyborg Doake's!
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Dismayed by Debilitated DexterDec 04, 2011
By Paul Reis
I just finished this novel a few hours ago and was eager to read some reviews on here to get other people's takes on it.
***SOME SPOILERS BELOW***
What to say, what to say... I enjoyed this book, as I have every installment Lindsay's put out in this original series. I've read all but "Dexter in the Dark" and that is next up on my list, and I will faithfully continue to check out all other future publications but it's difficult for anyone to not notice and point out the flaws in works they're fans of and well-acquainted with, right?
Some definite Pro's of this book in my view is that it felt tighter and more focused than its predecessor, "Dexter Is Delicious." I actually enjoyed that one a great deal, but its central villainy and Big Bad(s) were certainly over the top, and "Double Dexter" righted that for me. Also, the Witness angle was something Lindsay hadn't yet explored and so that made the reading endeavor fresh in & of itself right out of the gate. The continued inclusion of Brian was also a big plus. And although these are relatively minor bonuses, there seemed to be less redundant ruminating on that 'ole brutal Miami traffic this time around (THANK GOODNESS!) and also less whining about Deborah's "blistering arm punches," namely because there were simply fewer of them but every time our protagonist starts crying about those in this series I can't help but think, 'Good grief, toughen up already man!' :)
All that said, it was a bit frustrating...maddeningly so at times...to see the trend continue in this novel of Dexter being outsmarted at nearly every turn; by a complete "amateur" no less, according to his own words. Although it's been a few years since I read the first two novels in this series, I remember Mr. Morgan back then being an icily logical, competent, and most importantly highly intelligent dude who never met an adversary he couldn't one-up. There is hardly a trace of that Dexter left in Lindsay's current incarnation, and though it is likely due to the character's becoming more "human" and domesticated, I have trouble understanding why the author would want to so drastically diminish the very characteristics that helped set his protagonist apart from the rest of the pack in the first place, drawing in so many new readers in the process! I just wish Dexter could've caught SOME sort of break here, even one! When he commissioned someone close to him to take care of his Ever-Closer Walking Problem towards the end, I was rooting more than anything for that to actually happen, decreased suspense be damned. If handled right that development still could have had a satisfying payoff. What we got instead strained believability maybe a little too much.
I guess overall it just seems wrong somehow that such a once-compelling figure should be turned into a (mostly) bumbling, mistake-prone fool- so fundamentally contrary to where he began. I still rate it 3 stars because it is after all, like all of them, an entertaining read! It is. Lindsay is a talented writer and the humor he injects into Dexter's thought process here (though admittedly there is less than in prior installments) had me laughing out loud a handful of times, which helped keep the pages turning. Even so, here's hoping for a few character reboots next time around.
8 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 TerribleNov 03, 2011
By K. Naul
I refuse to believe that Jeff Lindsay wrote this book, because it is nothing like the other ones. When I say this I mean, the others were so good, and this one is so bad. Dexter is a bumbling idiot in this book, Rita is a bumbling drunk, the kids shouldn't have even been in the story if all they were going to do is play video games. I was so excited to read this, and so very disappointed when I actually did. Come on Jeff, bring Dexter back!
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