Mark your calendars for the return of America’s favorite vigilante serial killer. If you thought you saw the last of Dexter Morgan, you’re dead wrong. Dexter: Resurrection premieres on Paramount+ July 11th of this year featuring Dexter trying to locate a missing Harrison in the Big Apple with a familiar face hot on his trail. If you’re looking for some books to binge in between episodes or want a TBR stack perfect for fans of Dexter, look no further! From serial killers to vigilantes and some grey characters in between, we’ve got you covered.
Matchmaking for Psychopaths by Tasha Coryell
Lexie has survived horrors in her past, but nothing prepared her for her fiancé dumping her for her best friend. As a distraction, Lexie throws herself into her work matchmaking psychopaths. Going against her own boundaries, Lexie finds comfort in a client named Aidan who thinks she’s his soulmate and another client named Rebecca that would be perfect as her new bestie. When a human heart appears on her doorstep, more threats arrive, and her fiancé disappears. Now, Lexie needs to find out who is shattering her fairytale and turning it into a horror story.
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Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
Four influential members of a London private club have just been poisoned, and all signs point toward Katherine Cole—a young waitress—as the main suspect. Now, five men are questioning how well they really knew her including her father, childhood friend, lover, lawyer, and a journalist who is convinced she’s a cold-blooded killer. As all five perspectives contrast with one another, this mystery begs the question on who knows the real Katherine.
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This Girl’s a Killer by Emma C. Wells
Cordelia Black loves killing men. Sure, during the day she’s a pharma rep with the best wardrobe, but by night she’s what the news would consider a “serial killer” who rids South Louisiana of men that think they’ve got the upper hand over the justice system. When Cordelia’s best friend begins to date a man who Cordelia feels could be her next target, things get messy.
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Look What You Made Me Do by Elaine Murphy
Carrie Lawrence and her sister Becca Lawrence couldn’t be more different. Carrie dreams of the day she can lead a boring life and not be summoned to the woods at odd hours of the night to help Becca hide another dead body. Becca has been getting away with murder for over a decade and has no anxiety whatsoever—because in her mind, every single person she’s killed had it coming to them. When thirteen bodies are discovered by the police and the people suspect a serial killer may be living in their small town, Becca and Carrie are both terrified of what’s to come. The problem? Becca swears the bodies aren’t hers and now the sisters realize that Becca isn’t the only serial killer in town.
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Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell worked on a task force together for a decade, searching for a vicious serial killer that was haunting Portland. Not only did Archie fall in love with Gretchen, but he found out—too late—that she was the serial killer they were hunting. Now two years later, Gretchen is in prison and Archie is finally returning to work when a serial killer attacks Portland again. Working with a determined young report and the old task force he left behind, Archie must do whatever it takes to find this madman…even if that means asking Gretchen for help.
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Sister, Butcher, Sister by KD Aldyn
The Rowling sisters seem relatable from the outside looking in to their partners and families. Lurking underneath the surface are dark secrets the sisters are trying to hide. When the oldest sister, Kate, comes home to buy their late grandfather’s home, their secrets are in danger of being exposed. Does she have visions from her past she can’t remember? Will Aurora act out from her sister’s choices? Will Peggy ever move on from the memories of the past? Then there’s SHE. SHE is a serial killer responsible for the murders that have devastated the coastal community, the ones that will force the Rowlings to reveal their deepest and darkest secrets.
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Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Chloe is far from your average college freshman. Not only is she a psychopath who is part of an unusual clinical study with other anonymous psychopath students, but she’s arrived at the university with one goal—kill Will Bachman. When one of the other students in the study is found murdered, the game of cat and mouse begins. As Chloe gets closer and closer to the day she can finally kill Will, she must also outsmart a murderer who has their eyes set on Chloe and the other students in the study.
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The Last Party by A.R. Torre
When you look at Perla Wultz, you’d think she has the perfect life with her husband and daughter in a gated Pasadena community. But if you look closer, Perla has an obsession with a decades old crime that is consuming her. Over twenty years ago, Leewood Folcrum confessed to murdering two young girls during a birthday party. Although time has passed and Leewood is serving a life sentence, a doctoral student has been interviewing him and trying to get answers to what happened on the night of the murders.
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They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
Scarlett Clark is a brilliant English professor … and a murderer. Every year, Scarlett kills whoever she believes to be the worst man on campus, and so far, this has all been practice for her biggest takedown yet. When the campus officials begin to investigate the school’s questionably high body count, Scarlett gets as close as she can to the woman in charge. Carly Schiller is a freshman at the same college Scarlett works at and finds herself entangled in an intense friendship with her new roommate, Allison. When Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, it appears that Scarlett may not be the only one who has an obsession with ridding the campus of horrible men, which becomes clear as Carly begins to plot her own style of revenge.
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How I’ll Kill You by Ren DeStefano
Out of the three sisters, Sissy is the most normal: after all, she’s not a serial killer. Sissy’s two sisters are though, and they leave a path of destruction wherever they go. Now that they’ve all arrived in Arizona, it’s Sissy’s turn to make a man fall in love with her only to kill him. Her target is none other than the widower Edison. Things take an unexpected turn when Sissy finds that she is actually capable of murder, but she begins to fall for Edison.
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