 Alex Hardy in "The Times" was less critical, giving the show four stars out of five and saying that "this fact-based drama managed to balance tragedy with optimism", but added that it "inevitably contained elements of soap".The "Daily Mail" gave it five stars out of five, praising it because, "Unlike so many detective dramas, Code Of A Killer managed to avoid mortuary porn.There was no naked body on a morgue slab.