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

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But the "birds" theme falls flat for me, ultimately trivializing what must have been a horrific event. It's not just because I am from Liverpool that I was such a fan of the scene setting in A Tapping at My Door, but it's because of how brilliantly it was all done.

A Tapping at my Door is the first book in a new series featuring DS Nathan Cody and is set in Liverpool. Clearly this issue will be dealt with in future books, but I didn't like at all the flimsy excuse that causes the break up of the current relationship one of the lovers is in. The motive made sense, but the reason for leaving the birds as some sort of 'clue' didn't make any sense. S. of A, Jackson has stayed closer to home with this one, setting it in his native city of Liverpool. I can't imagine what would possess the character to do this, and the explanation provided in the book was completely unbelievable.Later, when I learned that the motivation of the murderer was linked to a single, at that point unrevealed, word I know what the word would be. David Jackson, really made this into a great read that keeps you interested till the very last page. Even though this book is more scary and, in parts more gruesome, than I like to read, I did finish it, and enjoyed it for the characters and the plot. DS Nathan Cody, recovering from a traumatic experience while working undercover is partnered with an ex-girlfriend on the hunt for this killer which leads to old memories they would both rather forget to resurface. In the book, he remembers visiting the library here as a kid, with the Francis Bacon quote above the library door: ‘Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Okay, the first time it's described, it has its intended effect of grossing us out, but to repeat it every single time the character goes in there is just ridiculous.But after the first murder, and the introduction of detective Nathan Cody, I was hooked and enjoyed this listen from that point forward. A Tapping At My Door is a crime thriller, the first in David Jackson’s DS Nathan Cody crime thriller series. There are several great moments in the book, but the introduction to the main character is my favorite. I just hope Cody will get a grip soon, and come back to his senses, seeing that he is decided not to resort to psychiatric help. DS Nathan Cody, just back to work after an undercover mission that went horrifyingly wrong, is put on the case.

Beginning with an epigraph from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (one extra point allocated by this reviewer) reflecting the title of the book, we are immediately plunged into a nerve shredding opening, to which we must thank Mr Jackson for giving all us single ladies the right heebie jeebies. Our murderer, the photographer Chris, was a little boy at a soccer tragedy caused by police incompetence. I thought he was really weird to start with until his personal demons were explained but I'm not sure the story benefited from that delay. Having an irrational fear of birds (completely ridiculous, I know), this book was totally creeping me out at the beginning and I thought I had stumbled into a horror story rather than a crime procedural set in Liverpool.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. 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.