Creating a serial killer who kills other killers

Jeff Lindsay doesn't seem like the kind of guy whose mind could give birth to a serial killer. The soft-spoken, middle-aged author lives in a southwest Florida community with his wife and three daughters. He has a backyard pool and a fishing boat tied up to his dock.

But when Lindsay came to the conclusion that "serial murder isn't always a bad thing," he created the character Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami-Dade Police Department who hunts and kills criminals in his spare time.

His vigilante justice was on display in "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" and "Dearly Devoted Dexter," and fans of the books can expect a third -- Dexter in the Dark" to hit book stores September 18. And "Dexter," the Showtime series based on Lindsay's books, is set to start its second season September 30...More?