Red Lipstick, Cold Alibi

Red Lipstick Cold AlibiClara understands how attention works. How repetition creates familiarity. How small signals, placed carefully, can teach a room what to remember and what to ignore.Over time, patterns harden into truth, and truth becomes something other people repeat for you.But patterns can be copied.When a routine begins to fracture and familiar signals return altered, Clara is forced to confront the possibility that she is no longer the only author of the story unfolding around her.Someone else has been watching. Someone else has learned the rules. And someone is prepared to use them.As control slips and certainty erodes, intention becomes difficult to prove and innocence harder to perform. What remains is a quiet, tightening sense that the wrong person may be holding the alibi and that the final move has already been made.Red Lipstick, Cold Alibi is a psychological crime story about murder, deception, and the dangerous power of constructing patterns you believe only you can control. 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.