Death Needs No Witness

Death Needs No WitnessRunning from a crime scene, Mia boards the last boat from Shanghai, hands still unsteady, the taste of it still in her mouth. The river is black. The city fractures behind her. For a moment, it feels like escape.Then the boat pulls away.Out on the water, there is nowhere to go. Nowhere to hide. The dark presses in, thick and absolute, broken only by distant lights that never seem to get closer. The engine hums. The hull cuts through something that feels heavier than water.And Mia starts to feel it.Not just fear. Not just guilt. Something else. The sense of being followed without movement. Watched without a watcher. As if whatever she left behind has not stayed behind at all.A man sits opposite her. She doesn't see him arrive. He speaks her name like he's been waiting to use it. Knows details he shouldn't. Knows what happened. Knows what she did.The crossing stretches. Time distorts. Every sound feels amplified. Every silence feels deliberate. The water closes in on both sides, endless and unreadable, and the boat becomes less like transport and more like containment.There are no witnesses out here. No help. No interruption.Only the slow, suffocating realisation that something is coming for her across the dark, and it does not need to be seen to reach her.Death Needs No Witness is a psychological crime story about pursuit without escape, where the line between memory, guilt and something far more dangerous begins to dissolve, and the most terrifying question is not what is following you, but whether it ever needed to. Jameson writes both professionally and as a hobby. He studied journalism and psychology and has authored both fiction and non-fiction.He lives in Hampshire with his wife, two children, two dogs and a cat. A lifelong lover of books and writing, he created the Deadly Little Murders series from a bank of ideas he felt were better suited to short, self-contained stories than padded-out longer works.In a recent interview Jameson said - "I think most authors, myself included, have ideas that are strong, but not every idea needs to be stretched into a 60,000-word paperback. Some stories work better with precision. That was the thinking behind Deadly Little Murders, short fiction that still delivers the twists, tension and satisfaction of a thriller, but in a form you can read in one sitting." Volume One of Deadly Little Murders is a collection of fourteen short psychological crime stories about the moment things turn fatal. A pressure point. A lie. A withheld truth. A choice that cannot be undone.Each story follows the quiet slide from reason to consequence, until someone ends up dead.Lean, sharp and controlled, these are tightly constructed crime stories built for tension, misdirection and impact.