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

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Despite this there is a large aspect of mystery throughout that doesn’t get revealed until the very end at which point everything makes sense. I was so totally engrossed in the plot from page one that I didn't even see where it was going until it slapped me in the face!

I wondered where this story was going in the first few chapters but so glad I kept on listening to which turned out to be an excellent story. This element of the book is sensitively done, but it doesn’t hide away, it manages to make both sides of the argument get their point across evenly and validly so that it’s heartfelt and for the reader you feel the raw emotion. And it's not just those dark scenes that the city lends itself to so well, but also the scenes of 'normality'. It’s obvious that something had gone wrong whilst he was working undercover, which had affected him very badly.Another pub I spent some time in is The Beehive, where Cody has a meeting with Dobson the journalist.

I definitely get that the EVENT would be enough to scar someone for life, and the way the villain's life is changed by the event was perfectly reasonable, but pulling in the birds?All murders are horrific but I think when someone is going around killing police officers, it makes it a whole lot more personal as well as scary for other members of the police force. The interactions between Nathan and the other characters in this book were great and often provided some light relief from what is a very intense, dark and emotional plot. 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.

The rest, a decent police procedural, with promising characters, specially her boss, Stella Blunt, and her ex fiancée, Megan Webley. This book did not have the same fascination for me but there was enough quality to promise more going forward in this series. I have to admit that, being a huge Beatles fan, I am always drawn to books set in Liverpool and so was keen to read this first in a series (I hope) set in my favourite city and featuring Detective Sergeant Nathan Cody. As flashbacks from his past begin to intrude, Cody realises he is battling not just a murderer, but his own inner demons too. Pretty standard for crime fiction these days, but the way David Jackson develops this character and gradually reveals more and more about Nathan's background and history is brilliant.Further to the key theme of this particular case, there is the personal trauma and coping mechanisms of DS Nathan Cody himself that begin to become unraveled over the course of the book leaving me excited to pick up the next in the series to know more about Cody and what will happen next in his personal journey. Then a killer strikes, thus killing two birds with one stone (sorry couldn’t resist that one, and also the consequent loss of formerly allocated point for crimes against ravens). In ‘A Tapping At My Door’ we follow DS Nathan Cody on a new case of a supposed cop killer, who’s leasing some weird messages. Again, as I have done in the past with some authors, I will make a disclaimer, in that Dave is a friend, so take my thoughts on this as you will. When Latham’s murder is investigated further, events from her recent past lead to the revisiting of a contentious case centred on police brutality.