This is my first book of this author but will not be the last.
we meet the Benson family, Malcom, Harriet and Daisy... only Daisy is not really their daughter. 3 years ago they stole her from her family and kept her locked away in their house. Now they have decided that she needs a sister., poppy comes into the story they then decide they would like another daughter who is called Ellie , the story has a good twist to it and the charactor cody comes onto the story and then the police are involved and soon they put the pieces together but there is still a twist to the story in the ending

The Benson's (to all intents and purposes ) are a normal happy little family, there's Mum (Harriet) Dad (Malcolm) and 10 year old Daisy. However, Daisy isn't their little girl, they stole her three years ago - and now they'd like an addition to their family, so Malcolm begins the painstaking process of searching for a sister for Daisy!

Right from the beginning we're aware of who the perpetrator is, and I'm not normally a fan of books that don't allow me to use my powers of deduction. However, I thought in this case it worked really well. The author still managed to produce and maintain the tension needed to make it a winner. The characters were fully fleshed, playing their roles to perfection, and the narrative carried an air of menace at all times. There were some neat little twists, with a real cracker at the end. A great read!

*Thank you to Netgalley, Bonnier Zaffre and David Jackson for my ARC for which I have given an honest review*

Children going missing are a well used topic for crime fiction, so what’s so special about this one I can hear you ask? OMFG where shall I begin, I literally loved this crime thriller, the characters, the plot, the writing, the pacing, every element of this book was on spot on. I’m not going to beat about the bush Don’t Make A Sound has just gone straight to the head of my top reads of 2018, it’s compelling, gripping and definitely the best crime thrillers I’ve read this year.

Full review to be posted on my blog soon

This is a DS Nathan Cody and I haven’t read any by this author or with this character before. Malcolm and Harriet seem like the perfect neighbours but does their Daughter Daisy never leave her room? Then Daisy gets a new sister, Poppy who Malcolm has stolen from her family. Cody and his partner Detective Constance Webley are on the case to bring Poppy home. Is Poppy’s family what they see,?
The story is written from 3 characters point of views, Malcolm, Daisy and Nathan. I enjoyed the story but not 100% sure about the ending.

Did you hear that thud? That was the sound of my jaw hitting the floor. Good grief.

The third instalment of the DS Nathan Cody series starts off innocently enough but after just a few pages, the whole scene is tilted onto its head so hard that my eyes almost popped out of my head and I wondered how I would survive the rest of this book without taking something that would provide some sort of calming effect. Talk about having the rug pulled from underneath you. Bloody hell!

I don’t want to give anything away about this terribly exciting plot, other than to say it deals with a missing child. Stories involving children are always rather tough to read, I find, and David Jackson made that experience even worse (in a totally good way) by actually offering the reader a missing child’s perspective. It’s uncomfortable, frightening and utterly heartbreaking to find yourself in that horrible situation with them.

Don’t Make A Sound is intensely gripping, utterly addictive and I devoured it in one glorious sitting. It’s a dark, disturbing and a brilliantly relentless page-turner that kept me having to remind myself to keep breathing. The banter between Cody and Webley offers some much needed relief at times, making me chuckle in the midst of all this evilness. We even learn a little something new about Blunt, which I’m desperately hoping will be explored further.

I don’t normally like mentioning endings. I always find it’s something like that “twist you won’t see coming” bit where you rush to get to the part everyone is talking about. Know what I mean? Obviously I don’t want you to rush to get to the end of this story (seriously, slow down, enjoy the thrilling ride) but boy, did that blow my mind or what?! Didn’t see that coming at all and it seriously messed with my head! Just awesome!

What an absolutely brilliant addition to an already outstanding series! You’re all reading these, right? If not, I highly recommend you head out out to pick up your copies right now? When you’ve finished catching up, I’m sure you’ll join me in eagerly awaiting the fourth book in the series. I can’t wait to see what David Jackson has in store for the team.

Don't Make A Sound is book 3 in the :DS Nathan Cody series and in my opinion the best one. When I received this book I realised that I had missed book 2 so I quickly righted that wrong and was read for book 3.

This time we meet the Benson family, Malcom, Harriet and Daisy... only Daisy is not really their daughter. 3 years ago they stole her from her family and kept her locked away in their house. Now they have decided that she needs a sister. Now the police are involved and soon put the pieces together. Cody and his team set out to find the girls and return them to their real parents.

Nathan Cody is a great character. He has a lot going on in his head from past cases. I love his relationship with his partner and team. I hope that there will be be more book stories in this series.

Thanks to Bonnier Zaffre and NetGalley for my advanced copy of this book to read and enjoy in exchange for my honest opinions

ive read quite a few books recently that haven’t lived up to my expectations this is not one of them! i managed to read this book in 2 sittings it is so good! this is definitely one i’d recommend others to read.

many thanks to netgalley and the publishers for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

The Bensons are a family just like any other family...well, almost. The difference between them and other ordinary families is that their beautiful daughter Daisy is not theirs...they stole her. And now they have decided she needs a little brother or sister.

This was one of those books that you want to read as fast as possible to find out what happens but at the same time you don't want it to end. I've never read anything by David Jackson before, and I didn't realize that this was the third book in a series before I read it, but now I would like to read the two earlier books. This book was full of twists and there was a totally unexpected ending. Don't Make a Sound is a really good book, and I highly recommend it.

DS Nathan Cody #3

The Bensons are a pleasant enough couple. They keep themselves to themselves. They have a beautiful little girl called Daisy. There's just one problem. Daisy does not belong to the Bensons. They stole her. And now they have decided that Daisy needs a little brother or sister.

From the outside, the Bensons look like any ordinary family, but they're not. Daisy is kept locked in a dark bedroom and she is scared and lonley. She's is about to get a new sibling. DS Nathan Cody and his partner are given the case. There are plenty of twists and turns in this fast paced book. The story is gripping with a great mix of characters. Although I have not read any of the other books in this series, I do think this book can be read as a standalone. Although I do think and recommend you read the other two books in this series first to understand more about the characters etc. I do normally like to read books in the order that they are written.

I would like to thank NetGalley, Bonnier Zaffre and the author David Jackson for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I loved the previous DS Nathan Cody books, “A Tapping at my Door,” and “Hope to Die,” so I was delighted to receive the third in the series for review.

Malcolm and Harriet Benson live in a perfectly normal house, in a perfectly normal road, but they are not a perfectly normal family. Their young daughter, Daisy, is not theirs – Malcolm kidnapped her some years previously, and now he has decided that she needs a sister…

When a young girl is snatched, it is the kind of case that the police most dread. There is unlikely to be a good outcome, the press and public scrutiny is intense and it tugs at all sorts of emotions and fears. For those who have read the previous books (and you really should) much of the joy of this series is in the characters. There is the damaged Nathan Cody (who has his own demons , or should I say clowns, to contend with) and the rest of the team he works with also give the books depth, humour and pathos.

Detective Constable Webley features highly in this novel. Along with the plot, which veers wonderfully between the story of the investigation, and the Benson house, there is also the matter of Webley and her on-off relationship with boyfriend Parker; whose name leads to various bad puns from a gleeful Cody. We also learn more about DCI Stella Blunt and the reasons why that stern, forbidding woman, always seems to favour Cody. However, one of the best things about this novel, and the series as a whole, is the way it is various shades of grey, rather than black and white. This is a shocking crime, but there are no obvious conclusions from Jackson, who is adept at showing us a character we are meant to hate, only to show us how to distrust our opinions a short time later.

I do not wish to give away the plot of this glorious, fast moving crime novel. If you like intelligently written crime novels, with excellent characters and wonderful plots, then you will enjoy this. David Jackson is one of a number of brilliant new British crime authors (Angela Marsons, William Shaw and others) that we have been blessed with in recent years. It is a great time for British crime writing and this series is one of the most enjoyable, and this latest instalment, the best so far. A wonderful novel, a brilliant plot, a shocking ending and characters that I hope to meet again. I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, for review.

David Jackson’s series featuring DS Nathan Cody is on my ‘must-read’ list and I was suitably thrilled to hear that he was making his third appearance on 3 May 2018.
This is one creepy book, no need for gruesome scenes for this author, instead he lets you imagine the worst from his well-chosen words.

A young girl, a mere six years of age, has disappeared from her bed and Nathan Cody is investigating. This investigation is high profile, no one wants to think that there is a child snatcher in the neighbourhood and yet it seems like whoever took Poppy was invisible as there is no trace. Yes no clues to follow and that means that Cody has to painstakingly follow a number of different theories simultaneously to see which one holds water.
We meet Poppy’s parents, Craig and Maria in the wake of her disappearance and we have Cody, DC Meghan Webley, FLO, Jason Oxburgh and data expert Grace Meade amongst others who under the tough leadership of DCI Stella Blunt of Liverpool’s police. We also have ten year old Daisy living with her parents Malcolm and Harriet, home-schooled she is a little lonely and has that peculiar manner of children who spend all their time in the company of adults. All these characters are acutely drawn with everyday events underscored by a level of tension that you simply won’t believe until you read this book for yourself. Never in my life have I had to hold my breath while reading about a game of darts!

Although this is one of my favourite genres, a good solid police procedural there is a strong element of the psychological woven through the storyline. As we observe the different relationships I found I was in on the action trying to work out why some were behaving the way they were, for instance, in the all too familiar media interview I felt I was on the other side of the camera, alongside the police watching and waiting for a sentence that would provide a key to unlocking at least something vaguely useful to explaining what had happened. Because the reader knows more than the police, a dicey device in any but the most assured writer’s keyboard, you’d expect the tension levels to be lower. Not so, I could feel my heart racing at far too many parts of this book to mention. I needed it all resolved, and as the levels increase unrelentingly until the truly outstanding ending. This book should come with a free ECG to make sure your heart is up to reading it!

I’m sure this would read very well as a standalone but I don’t recommend it. A Tapping at my Door, the first in the series, is one of my favourite crime books of all time, and the second, Hope to Die gives us more insight into Nathan Cody as well as being another full-on read so you’ll be missing out if you can’t wait and chose to start with this book but I’m almost certain you’ll need to pick up the previous two if you can’t wait.

I’d like to say a huge thank you to Bonnier Zaffre for allowing me to read a copy of Don’t Make a Sound ahead of publication on 3 May 2018. Thank you also to David Jackson for giving my heart a workout, I can’t wait to see what will happen next. This is an unbiased review written by Cleopatra Loves Books.

First Published UK: 3 May 2018
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
o of Pages: 3528
Genre: Crime Fiction – Series
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When I started this I didn’t realise it was the 3rd one in this detective series. It didn’t bother me to much but has made want to read others to find out what happened to Cody. Really interesting story, easy to read. Just wished there was a little more about what happened to the girls and Harriet afterwards. Was worth a read.

This book was absolutely amazing, I wasn't sure I would love, because I love the thrill of the discovering everything in the end, but I was wrong. While this book lets you know from the beginning who is the bad ones, it still kept you intrigued and turning pages. The writing was intense and had you turning pages, while holding your breathe! Highly recommend.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bonnier Zaffre for an arc of Don't Make a Sound.
Having reading the synopsis, I was keen to get started on reading this book. Wow - what a spine tinglingly gripping book this was too. Be prepared for a bit of gruesome reading!
The writing was startlingly descriptive. I found I could imagine the characters vividly, and they really came to life. It felt like I was actually watching a film.
The story was intense from the very beginning to the "edge of your seat" ending.
This is one book you will definitely not want to put down!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 Stars.

For me this was an enjoyable book but because you know very early on who the bad guys are, the book lacks an element of suspense.

This is a very good police procedural book, and to be honest the writing and story were good enough that I didn’t feel it needed any of the love interest back story sections of Cody and Webley.

This is a book you can whiz through in a day or two and yes there is an interesting twist at the end that I did not see coming in relation to the motivation of the bad guys.

Recommended and I will read others by the author.

I was really looking forward to reading this 3rd in the Nathan Cody series, having loved the first 2. This was certainly worth waiting for. A 6 year old girl is taken from her own bed in the middle of the night. The police are struggling to find any leads. We, the reader, know that the abductor was a man called Malcolm, and the missing girl is being looked after by him and his wife, albeit kept prisoner in a room in their house, along with another girl called Daisy. The story pulled me in immediately, and it was good to reconnect with Cody and his sidekick Megan. There are many twists and turns, and the story is not for the faint hearted! Hope we don't have to wait too long for the next in the series. Thanks to NetGalley for a preview copy.
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The first book I’ve read by David Jackson and it certainly won’t be the last. Cody and his colleagues are sent to investigate after Poppy has been taken from her house in the middle of the night. The plot thickens and takes twists and turns and you wonder what will happen next. A real page turner. There were parts where I was shouting at my book......nooooo go back or look here etc etc..
Great read. I don’t want to give any more of the book away, just go read it!!

I would like to thank Netgalley and Bonnier Zaffre for an advance copy of Don't Make a Sound, the third police procedural to feature DS Nathan Cody of the Liverpool police.

When 6 year old Poppy Devlin is kidnapped from her home the MIT jumps into action but with no leads they don't get far.

I thoroughly enjoyed Don't Make a Sound which kept me absorbed throughout. Normally I'm not overly enthusiastic about novels which introduce the perpetrator early on but in this case it works really well. The reader knows from the start that Malcolm and Harriet Benson are the kidnappers and that they already have "daughter" 10 year old Daisy locked in a bedroom. Poppy is to be her new sister. The narrative switches from Cody to Malcolm to Daisy. It is interesting to see the fuller picture and while often find constant narrative switches distracting I found myself reading quickly to see what was coming next as it seems to mesh together seamlessly.

In previous novels Mr Jackson has dwelt on the PTSD and associated mental health issues Cody acquired after an undercover assignment went dreadfully wrong but he seems very together in this one. It means he can concentrate on police work which he does effectively, making connections others can't. Malcolm Benson, on the other hand, clearly has mental health issues which I'm unwilling to expand on for fear of issuing spoilers. Daisy and her situation are very well drawn. Her sense of fear and helplessness are almost palpable. I do, however, wonder if a ten year old is capable of the reasoning she does or if the situation has sharpened her thought processes.

There are several unexpected turns in the novel which add to the ooh factor but Mr Jackson saves the biggest twist for the last few pages. All I can say is "I didn't see that coming". It's masterful.

Don't Make a Sound is a good read which I have no hesitation in recommending.

Don’t Make a Sound

Wowzers !! What a read ! I devoured this book in two days (would of been sooner if it wasn’t for “life” getting in my way). I didn’t realise there are two previous books with DS Cody so now I am off to download A Tapping At My Door. Thank you for my review copy of this book, I urge anyone who loves a gripping thriller to read this. Highly recommended.

Another dramatic fast paced instalment in this series with yet another close call for Cody who has more lives than the average cat.
Although well aware that this is a proof copy the spelling and spacing errors made for difficult reading.