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. Many thanks to Zaffre, David Jackson and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of A Tapping at My Door in exchange for an honest review. I instantly liked Nathan Cody, a former undercover policeman, he clearly had dealt with a major incident in this role, but what it was isn’t revealed for quite some time. I have no doubt his relationship with his dysfunctional family will provide us with plenty of drama in future books!

But, later in the story when it becomes clear just what it all meant it became even more disturbing and looking back it's quite impressive how this story was told, and I can't imagine there will be a single reader that will fully work out where this story is heading. In this first novel, readers don't wonder if DS Cody will survive because of course this is going to be a series so he has to. There is so much that I want to say about this story, but a lot of it is about the characters and the plot developments and it would almost certainly ruin the story for potential readers.I really enjoyed David Jackson’s writing style; short punchy sentences that get the point across without faff. As mentioned in the novel, Rodney Street is sometimes referred to as the Harley Street of the north, with its doctors, dentists, etc.

I really enjoy a good British crime novel and I found this very similar to Peter Robinson’s DCI Banks series. 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! Though I would try another of this guy's books before I would read a number of reliably disappointing bestselling authors in this genre, I don't actually plan to do so.The powerfully cliched gender roles and ham-fisted insertion of secondary plot spotlight are a shame in an author who has a lot of skill. But I read detective novels solely for the detective mystery and police procedurals Every fictional detective are molded from the same template. It was the first crime novel I read in a while, and I really wanted to be swept away into a interesting murder investigation.