Dexter Morgan isnt exactly the kind of man youd bring home to your mum. At heart hes the perfect gentleman: he has a shy girlfriend & seems to lead a quiet normal life bordering on the mundane. Despite the fact that he cant stand the sight of blood he works as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police. But Dexter also has a secret hobby: he is an accomplished serial killer. So far hes killed 36 people & has never been caught because he knows exactly how to hide the evidence. & while that may lead some people to assume hes not such a nice guy he tempers his insatiable hunger for brutality by only killing the bad guys. However Dexters well-organised life is suddenly disrupted when a second much more visible serial killer appears in Miami. Intrigued that the other killer favours a style similar to his own Dexter soon realises that the mysterious new arrival is not simply invading his turf but offering him a direct invitation to come out & play...