Jeff Lindsay

Jeff Lindsay is an American author best known for the Dexter series, which follows Dexter Morgan, a Miami police blood-spatter analyst who moonlights as a serial killer targeting other murderers under a personal code instilled by his adoptive father. The first novel, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, was published in 2004 and became the basis for the Showtime television series Dexter (2006–2013), one of the most acclaimed and discussed crime dramas of its era, later followed by the continuation series Dexter: New Blood and Dexter: Original Sin. Lindsay wrote eight novels in the original book series, continuing the character's story well beyond where the TV adaptation diverged. Readers who came to the character through television should be aware the novels take a distinct, often darker and more interior path than the show, narrated throughout in Dexter's own darkly comic first-person voice. New readers should start with Darkly Dreaming Dexter, both as the series' origin and as the clearest example of Lindsay's blend of psychological thriller and gallows humor. Lindsay has also written other suspense fiction outside the Dexter series under his own name.