From the best-selling author of Cry Baby, the beginning of a brilliant and gripping police procedural series set in Liverpool, perfect for fans of Peter James and Mark Billingham.
A woman at home in Liverpool is disturbed by a persistent tapping at her back door. She’s disturbed to discover the culprit is a raven and tries to shoo it away. Which is when the killer strikes.
DS Nathan Cody, still bearing the scars of an undercover mission that went horrifyingly wrong, is put on the case. But the police have no leads except the body of the bird – and the victim’s missing eyes.
As flashbacks from his past begin to intrude, Cody realises he is battling not just a murderer but his own inner demons, too. And then the killer strikes again, and Cody realises the threat isn’t to the people of Liverpool after all – it’s to the police.
Following the success and acclaim of the Callum Doyle novels, A Tapping at My Door is the first instalment of David Jackson’s new Nathan Cody series.
This book neads more than 5 stars. Wowzers…​ Where do you start with a book like this. Just go and buy it and read it. I can’t put it all into words just won’t hold out will it. But that’s basically the top and bottom of it.Â
Jackson does a good job portraying the fractured relationships between the community and … The early chapters of this police procedural are tremendously intriguing. A woman copper in Liverpool is murdered in her back garden, with a dead raven splayed over her face. Only when the crime scene investigators remove the bird do they learn her eyes have been gouged—pecked?—out. And that the raven has a note attached to its leg saying ‘nevermore.’Â
Gripping from the first paragraph! While I nodded, nearly napping,suddenly there came tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.-The Raven, Edgar Allen PoeRight from the first paragraph, I was hooked and could not put this book down. I have become a huge fan of British crime thrillers and this one fit the bill. I can’t wait to start on the next one in this series.