miami: spoiler alert: book dexter does not become a lumberjack.
The eighth and final novel in the Dexter series, “Dexter Is Dead,” now in bookstores, picks up from the end of the previous book, with the titular vigilante serial killer under arrest and facing a murder charge — ironically for a crime he didn’t actually commit.
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“I always knew the wheels would come off one day,” said author Jeff Lindsay.
Starting with the 2004 novel Dexter Dreaming in the Dark, the series follows the exploits of Dexter Morgan, a Miami-Dade Police Department blood spatter analyst. Following a code developed by his adoptive father, a police officer, to kill only other killers, Dexter balances a public life of work, friends, and family with his not-so-public homicidal hobby. But now Dexter’s story is reaching a climactic conclusion.
“I had all these wonderful and outrageous ideas for how it would happen, and I ended up not using any of them, which I guess is par for the course,” Lindsay said. “Your first idea, the one that gets you going, is never the one you finish.”
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It’s safe to assume that none of those ideas involved Dexter faking his death and starting a new life in the Pacific Northwest as a lumberjack. Thus ended in 2013, after eight seasons, the television series “Dexter” based on Lindsay’s characters.
“wow wow did I get an email about that?” Lindsay said.
While the show’s first season stayed relatively close to the first novel, subsequent seasons’ plots had virtually nothing to do with the books. so lindsay could only tell the irate fans, “it wasn’t me.”
Fan reaction aside, Lindsay said she doesn’t really have an opinion on the final episode because she didn’t actually watch it. he had just started a 10-month book tour for his previous novel, dexter’s final cut, and didn’t get a chance to see the show’s finale.
“So I don’t have any opinion on whether it was good or bad except that TV is very, very different,” Lindsay said. “The demands of that medium are very different from what is demanded in the book, and it’s never going to be the same thing. I’m sure they (the show’s producers) did what they thought was right.”
lindsay said she has mixed feelings about leaving behind a popular character and a successful series of books.
“This is what I’ve always wanted, to have a series of books like that,” Lindsay said. “and saying goodbye to him is like launching into the unknown and starting over. but it’s about time. i don’t think it’s stale, but i felt like someday soon it might start to be stale for me. better get out on top, leave them wanting more.”
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lindsay said she was never bothered by the horrific murders or violent psychopaths she spent more than a decade writing about. He attributes this to the training he received years ago while pursuing an acting career in Hollywood.
“One of the things they taught us was how to be the wacky neighbor on the hit sitcom,” Lindsay said. “It’s not who you are. You go home and take off your costume. You have dinner with the family. And the next day, you come in and put your costume back on. And that’s always the way I wrote Dexter.”
Although Lindsay’s acting career never really took off, she was able to use her voice acting skills by performing the audiobooks of the last four Dexter novels, beginning with the “Dexter is Delicious” cannibalism theme. He said his publisher initially insisted that nonfiction writers make their own audiobooks, but it just wasn’t done with fiction.
“I kept telling them, it’s something I do, and I used to be good at it,” Lindsay said.
lindsay will spend the near future promoting “dexter is dead”, but hasn’t decided yet what she’ll work on next. she said that he may or may not stick with the crime fiction genre.
“I have a couple of ideas on that, and I have a few ideas outside of that,” Lindsay said. “When my wife and my agent tell me which of those ideas I’m going to do, I’ll start doing it.”
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