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

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This is fiction afterall, why can't the detective not have PTSD, have a perfect family life, understanding wife/ GF and completely focus on solving crimes? I don't know what made my ears bleed more - the awful cardboard characters or the ridiculous mystery behind it all.

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. Then a second body turns up, presented in a similar way to the first victim but with a different dead bird. The targets are co-workers, the killer’s signature is a variety of dead birds but the culmination is the brilliance of the story.

I also loved his boss, DCI Stella Blunt who threatened to ride roughshod over everyone on her sporadic appearances in the plot, with an incomparable mix of steel underscored by a certain softness. In case you couldn’t tell, my first introduction to David Jackson went extraordinarily well, I must say. There is a section related to the secondary plot which was so graphic that I had to skip/skim a good bit to get through it.

And the weather at the moment is not to my liking – so yes we’re never happy about it … never mind all the awful things that are happening everywhere right now!I can't imagine what would possess the character to do this, and the explanation provided in the book was completely unbelievable.