Dexter in the dark

Jeff Lindsay is the pen name of Jeffry P. Freundlich, an American playwright and crime novelist born in Miami, Florida, in 1952. He is best known for the Dexter series, eight novels about Dexter Morgan, a Miami forensic analyst who is also a vigilante serial killer, beginning with Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004). The Showtime television series Dexter was based on the first book. He also wrote the Billy Knight thrillers and the Riley Wolfe series, and earlier works with his wife, Hilary Hemingway.