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

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To start off I thought they had mixed the genres up as it was literally like something straight out of a horror movie.

I see that I'm in the minority as most reviewers loved the book but it just didn't work that well for me.Not only was the murder investigation really good, and kept me on the edge of my seat, I also really loved getting to know the main character Cody. A Tapping At My Door is a crime thriller, the first in David Jackson’s DS Nathan Cody crime thriller series. In fact there's only one upcoming 2016 book that I can even see being any competition for my crime fiction top spot.

As the book races to a thrilling denouement with the killer’s motivations at last revealed, it is apt that Jackson draws on two distinctly recognisable facets of Liverpool and Liverpudlian history to bring the story to a close. Once you know that there's going to be no response on the other end of the line, would you really keep picking it up? DS Nathan Cody, just back to work after an undercover mission that went horrifyingly wrong, is put on the case. Like so many central characters in crime novels, Cody is slightly damaged and has a lot of personal baggage when we first meet him.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. Could it be something in PC Terri Latham's past, something she did or that the killer believes she did? S. of A, Jackson has stayed closer to home with this one, setting it in his native city of Liverpool.

And if this book was a TV show, it would be a really bad one - we're talking CSI NY season no-one-is-counting-anymore bad. I don't know what made my ears bleed more - the awful cardboard characters or the ridiculous mystery behind it all.One killer with a crossbow can hold two able-bodied hostages all night, force them to drive across the city and then force then to climb to the top of the Liver Building through security, and milling people? Step forward Detective Sergeant Nathan Cody partnered with his ex-lover and new work colleague, Megan Webley, to solve the mystery. Once I got into chapter 2 and the perspective changed to the introduction of the protagonist, DS Nathan Cody, I was laughing out loud at the wry humor and managed to calm my nerves.

The murders are gruesome and really weird, their are several suspects and there are some personal problems for the main characters. Scared, she opens the door to find a large raven and then things get seriously creepy as she realises the raven is not alone…. So begins a LOT of sturm and drang and major angst as Cody suffers nightmares and the occasional urge to hurt people - especially members of the local media, one of whom has a secret of his own which will provide a vital clue to the identity of the "Bird Killer" and the reason for his killing spree.

Every single scene of this book, and where it was set was symbolic and had real meaning and each place was used to vividly convey everything that the killer of this novel wanted to put across.

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