Daniel Goldman

When Miami blood-spatter expert Dexter Morgan is not out solving murders, he's a serial killer out committing them. Dexter's world is shaken when another serial killer commits a riveting series of perfect slayings.

In the midst of preparing for his next victim, Dexter is thrust into turmoil when the other serial killer, dubbed the Ice Truck Killer, privately informs him that he knows Dexter's morbid secret.

While trailing a recently released murderer with plans to kill again, Dexter is gripped by the latest crime of the Ice Truck Killer: a chopped-up prostitute discovered in a pro-hockey ice rink.

The Ice Truck Killer begins leaving victims' body parts at sites that relate to Dexter's childhood, forcing the forensics analyst to confront his own dark history.

One of Dexter's victims returns to the scene of the kill, and LaGuerta finds a Cuban boy hiding at the crime scene.

Dexter notices that a spate of suicides all have one thing in common: the victims were all patients of the same psychiatrist.