Jeff Lindsay


Jeffry P. Freundlich, primarily known by his pen name Jeff Lindsay, is an American playwright and crime novelist. He is best known for his novels about the fictional psychopathic Miami police forensic analyst and serial killer-killing vigilante Dexter Morgan. The first book of the series was later developed into the Showtime television series from 2006 to 2013, with actor Michael C. Hall playing the character.

Life and career

Lindsay was born in Miami and graduated from Ransom Everglades School in 1970, and from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1975.
Many of his earlier published works include his wife Hilary Hemingway as a co-author. His wife is the niece of Ernest Hemingway and an author in her own right.
The first book in the Dexter series, Darkly Dreaming Dexter was included on the original nomination list for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Awards in the Best First Novel category. However, it was dropped from the list after the group learned that Lindsay had put out several books in the 1990s under another pen name, Jeffry P. Lindsay.
Dexter aired as a series on Showtime with the first season based on Darkly Dreaming Dexter and actor Michael C. Hall playing the character. The show eventually ran for eight seasons, though subsequent seasons had original storylines that departed from the plots of Lindsay's books. Lindsay had a cameo role in the tenth episode of the third season of Dexter. Lindsay has also written a comic book version of Dexter, distributed by Marvel comics, and which consists of two mini-series: Dexter and Dexter: Down Under.
Lindsay and Hemingway live in Cape Coral, Florida. They have three children.

Novels

''Billy Knight Thrillers'' series

  1. Tropical Depression: A Novel of Suspense, or Tropical Depression
  2. : Tropical Depression: A Novel of Suspense, as Jeffry P. Lindsay
  3. : Tropical Depression
  4. ''Red Tide''

    ''Dexter'' series

  5. Darkly Dreaming Dexter
  6. Dearly Devoted Dexter
  7. Dexter in the Dark
  8. Dexter by Design
  9. Dexter Is Delicious
  10. Double Dexter
  11. Dexter's Final Cut
  12. ''Dexter Is Dead''

    ''Riley Wolfe'' series

  13. Just Watch Me
  14. Fool Me Twice
  15. Three-Edged Sword
  16. ''The Fourth Rule''

    Stand-alones