Dearly Devoted Dexter / Jeffry P. Lindsay / 292 pages

The 2nd novel in the Dexter series features a more tamed Dexter than in the first.  Constantly watched, Dexter can't let his "dark passenger" out to play.  Therefore he settles into a more domesticated life with Rita and spends most of his time either with her or helping his dear sister to catch a sinister serial vivisectionist.  There's some dark imagery in this book - even more than the first, but Dexter seems to have lost his edge.  I hope the next novel in the series brings deadly deranged Dexter back while he manages the women who seem determined to get ever closer to him.