Jeff Lindsay is at his Hemingway-esque best in this latest discourse on Dexter, deft devotee of death. Lindsay expertly juxtaposes his antihero's predilection for predation with his bumbling grasp of the human condition in this delicious dose of darkness, which finds the depraved daddy deadlocked in a duel with a demented doppelganger, on top of dealing with troubles at home in his fake real life. —Kevin Tall, CL contributor
