" Jeff Lindsay reads his own books on audio and he's excellent: droll, dark Dexter. Michael C. Hall gets it from him, not the other way around. The basic story was covered in a few episodes of a past season of the tv show, with changes: here, a stressed, misanthropic computer whiz accidentally sees Dexter indulging his "playtime," and breaks bad, which means Dexter has to kill him. The gems are his delivery of the characters Rita, Aster, and Cody, and the very funny asides about the brilliance of Lily Ann, his and Rita's baby girl, whom Dexter loves like no other. Not overlooked: Dexter directed his brother Brian (yes, still alive in the books, like Rita) to kill the computer guy, but Brian kills the wrong guy, someone whose identity was stolen by computer guy. This killing of an innocent goes almost unremarked-upon. "
— Lois, 2/11/2014