Dexter is Delicious (The fifth book in the Dexter series)
Added by: Au_claire | Karma: 26.92 | Fiction literature | 13 January 2011
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Dexter is experiencing some major life changes and they're mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires.
As any detective can tell you, investigating missing property or deaths is comparatively easy compared to elusive missing people. However in New York City, there is a special unit of the FBI that is designed to find them. Using the vast resources of their bureau, the team, lead by Agent Jack Malone, race against time in the tight 72 hour window after a disappearance while hope for a recovery is still typically possible.
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Edited by: englishcology - 13 December 2009
Reason: All 23 episodes added, season 1 complete, enjoy! :)
Contents: The Adventure of the Western Star The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor The Adventure of the Cheap Flat The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan The Kidnapped Prime Minister The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman The Case of the Missing Will
Just about everyone's had a day when they've wished it were possible
to send an alternate self to take care of unpleasant or tedious errands
while the real self takes it easy. In Kiln People, David Brin's
sci-fi-meets-noir novel, this wish has come true. In Brin's imagined
future, folks are able to make inexpensive, disposable clay copies of
themselves. These golems or "dittos" live for a single day to serve
their creator, who can then choose whether or not to "inload" the
memories of the ditto's brief life. But private investigator Albert
Morris gets more than he, or his "ditective" copies, bargain for when
he signs on to help solve the mysterious disappearance of Universal
Kilns' co-founder Yasil Maharal--the father of dittotech. Brin
successfully interweaves plot lines as numerous as our hero's
ditectives and doggedly sticks to the rules of his created dittotech
while Morris's "realflesh" and clay manifestations slowly unravel the
dangerous secret behind Maharal's disappearance. As Brin juggles his
multiple protagonists and antagonists, he urges the reader to question
notions of memory, individualism, and technology, and to answer the
schizoid question "which 'you' is 'you?'" Brin's enjoyment is evident
as he plays with his terracotta creations' existential angst and
simultaneously deconstructs the familiar streetwise detective
meme--complete with a multilayered ending. Overall, Kiln People is a fun read, with a good balance of hard science fiction and pop sensibility.
