Third in the "Dexter" mystery series, featuring Miami forensic blood spatter expert Dexter Morgan, who has a side job as a serial killer. Trained by his foster father, Harry the Cop, Dexter targets only those "deserving" of death--such as child molesters and other serial killers. When the bodies of two young women are found burned and decapitated with ceramic bull's heads attached in place of their own heads, Dexter visits the crime scene with his sister, Sgt. Deborah Morgan, and feels as though he's being watched--and then is shocked to feel his "Dark Passenger" who has always been there silently assisting in his endeavors, leave his body.

For most of the book, Dexter is floating adrift without his Passenger, and amidst this bizarre crime investigation during which he's also stalked by this evil Watcher, he's trying to prepare for his upcoming wedding to Rita, his girlfriend of two years and also begin 'mentoring' her two children, Cody and Astor.

I really enjoy this series, bizarre as it is, and find Dexter's whole viewpoint and take on his whole sociopathic personality very interesting. There's also, of course, a bit of a debate about 'good and evil' or 'moral and amoral' and 'right and wrong,' but as odd as it seems to be rooting for a serial killer, that's what I inevitably find myself doing. I have not yet seen the TV show that this series has spawned, but it's hard to believe they could possibly be as good as the books!