A Tapping at My Door: A gripping serial killer thriller (The DS Nathan Cody series)

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This book doesn’t lie within the police procedural genre, though it is a team of officers investigating the murders, Jackson focuses more on the narrative than any procedure.

A Tapping at my Door is the first book in a new series featuring DS Nathan Cody and is set in Liverpool. So when I was asked to read the David Jackson’s new Nathan Cody series, I couldn’t say yes fast enough.Something bad happened to him in the past but what that may be is revealed quite slowly and had me utterly hooked. As far as a summary is concerned, I am only going to reveal that a serial killer who is murdering members of the police force is being hunted by Nathan and his team. Could it be something in PC Terri Latham's past, something she did or that the killer believes she did?

Off course the Author made sure we still have some thing to wonder about, but we also got some answers which really made me happy. When Latham’s murder is investigated further, events from her recent past lead to the revisiting of a contentious case centred on police brutality. It so doesn't work when you read it that the author skips the whole episode and just says it's happened, because no powers of writing could make the scenes work. Scared, she opens the door to find a large raven and then things get seriously creepy as she realises the raven is not alone. I so wish it was possible to discuss what happened in this story because that last third especially just needs talking about.This was also very well done with its helpful explanation of the difference between the new touristy bits and those slightly rougher parts of town cleverly slipped into the story to give a sense of place and to me this felt distinct from any generic English city. It seemed like this book was trying to emulate Stuart MacBride's Logan McRae series, which is what I was hoping for (Logan's groans are kind of funny), but Jackson needs to stop writing like he's being paid by the word. David Jackson, really made this into a great read that keeps you interested till the very last page. Since I was reading this in the dark, while home alone, I have no shame in admitting that it made me feel extremely nervous. A cop killer is on the loose in Liverpool and the police are panicked as a dead bird on the victim's face- along with a suitably cryptic message - is left at each murder scene.

This would have been a better story if author David Jackson had toned down the many, many pages of Cody's agonising about his past failure. I get that the long-winded set-ups and moment-by-moment description of characters' actions were meant to create drama and suspense, but I just found them tedious. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.The story begins with a tapping at the door and it’s a deliciously creepy way to reel the reader in from the get-go. The cause: the very tired cliches of pity/adore/fret over/misunderstand the exceptional man; and the women who have no real function as characters, beyond their nominal roles, except to be consumed by their relationship to the hero. I instantly liked Nathan Cody, a former undercover policeman, he clearly had dealt with a major incident in this role, but what it was isn’t revealed for quite some time.