The Buzz | Lindsay says goodbye to serial killer Dexter

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. “I always knew that someday the wheels would come off,” author Jeff Lindsay said. Starting with the 2004 novel “Darkly Dreaming Dexter,” the series follows the exploits of Dexter Morgan, a blood splatter analyst with the Miami-Dade Police Department. Following a code developed by his adoptive father — a police officer — to only kill other killers, Dexter balances a public life of work, friends and family with his not-so-public, homicidal pastime. But now Dexter’s story is coming to a climatic conclusion.