📚 Book Tour with Guest Post & Giveaway 📚 She Knew Too Much a , suspenseful psychological thriller by Vicki Weisfeld
SHE KNEW TOO MUCH
by Vicki Weisfeld
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GENRE: Suspense
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BLURB:
Travel writer Genie Clarke arrives in Rome seeking inspiration, but her trip turns deadly when she overhears two mafia operatives discussing a secret "Project." Before she can escape, she's attacked and left for dead. Awakening in a hospital-alive but hunted-Genie finds the police unwilling to believe her. Only Detective Leo Angelini takes her seriously, uncovering ties between her assault, a murdered woman, and a powerful criminal network.
With the threat escalating, Leo moves Genie into hiding, where she becomes both key witness and prime target. Cut off from safety and unsure who to trust, Genie must outthink the conspirators determined to silence her.
From Rome's bright piazzas to its shadowed alleys, she faces a terrifying fight for survival-and an unexpected connection with the detective risking everything to protect her. She Knew Too Much is a lean, suspenseful psychological thriller about fear, courage, and the price of knowing too much.
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EXCERPT
Dizzy, I swayed, staring into eyes pale and hard as silver coins. My knees gave way, and I slid down his chest. The foul odor of sweat-stained leather enveloped me. A zipper tore my cheek. I was yelling, or trying to, but he was undeterred. With one hand he held me up by the armpit, while his other fist found my face, stomach, ribs.
My brain kept repeating his warning. “Mind your own business, mind your own business, mind your ...”
I squirmed and twisted but couldn’t break free. Our bodies were locked too closely together, my face buried deep in the rancid jacket. I tasted blood. I tried to call out again, but he knocked the wind out of me, and I could barely gasp. I stomped on his instep—futile in my bare feet—and foolish—his boots heavy and rigid One of those boots connected with my shin, then stepped hard on my bare toes. I yelped.
Vision blurred, perceptions clouded. I shook my head, trying to clear my thoughts. A tattoo of a blue and green snake’s head covered the back of his hand. It coiled around his wrist and up under the jacket’s leather sleeve. Confused as I was, I could almost believe it was the snake attacking me. Mesmerized, I followed its black eyes as the hand disappeared into a pocket and came out holding a knife. The flashing blade broke the spell. In a desperate surge of energy, I tore myself away from him and screamed, “No!”re
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Guest Post
Exploring She Knew Too Much – a post about the setting/era of your book She Knew Too Much is set in Italy—Rome, mainly—shortly before covid. The protagonist is Genie Clarke, a successful American travel writer. She’s very observant, as a travel writer should be. Curious, too. Those are good traits for her profession, but they can get her into trouble, as they do here, when she overhears a conversation among gangsters about a crime they’re planning. Once they realize she’s heard them, the pursuit begins! As a travel writer, she has a built-in excuse to visit places around the world, which touches on a theme of the book—finding one’s place in the world. Her brother says the constant travel is an excuse not to put down roots, to establish permanent connections. She’s a little defensive about this and says he’s wrong. Readers may come to their own conclusions, once they know her full history. Rome is a perfect backdrop for She Knew Too Much because there’s so much there that a travel writer would want to cover. It’s easy to weave in famous monuments and neighborhoods of the city and to evoke the beautiful countryside. Many of these places are familiar to readers, whether they have been there in person or not, because of film and television. Various scenes take place at the Piazza del Popolo, the Spanish Steps, Santa Maria Maggiore and the countryside near Perugia. When places feel familiar to readers, it’s easier for them to visualize the action. If they’ve visited the places themselves, the story can connect with their own place-memories. Genie’s assignment is not just to look back in time, but to ferret out what in Rome is new. What are the younger generations creating in this venerable environment? Shops, galleries, restaurants, events. As the story opens, she’s done the research for her article, has it mostly written up, and has spent the last day of her trip on a pilgrimage to several venerable churches. She stands on an overlook in the Borghese Gardens, admiring the perfect vista of St. Peter’s dome, hazy and pink in the distance. Below, on the Piazza del Popolo, caffés beckon, and the sudden desire for a reviving cup of expresso draws her down to the piazza. She’s content, not knowing that this momentary impulse will set in motion events that will overturn her carefully organized world and set her adrift in a sea of dangers. I hope your readers take the opportunity to read She Knew Too Much. I think they will find it a fast-moving story with touches of romance, humor, and a big dose of humanity. I welcome their responses. Thank you for inviting me to share these few words about the story’s beautiful setting.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Vicki Weisfeld is a Midwesterner (Go Blue!) transplanted to New Jersey. Her short stories have appeared in leading mystery magazines, including Ellery Queen, Sherlock Holmes, and Black Cat. Find her work also in a variety of anthologies: Busted: Arresting Stories from the Beat, Seascapes: Best New England Crime Stories, Murder Among Friends, Passport to Murder, The Best Laid Plans, Quoth the Raven, and Sherlock Holmes in the Realms of Edgar Allan Poe. She's a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, which awarded "Breadcrumbs" a best short story Derringer in 2017, and the Public Safety Writers Association, which gave a similar award to "Who They Are Now" in 2020. She's a reviewer of New Jersey theater for TheFrontRowCenter.com and crime/mystery/thriller fiction for the UK website, crimefictionlover.com.
website: www.vweisfeld.com
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Victoria-Weisfeld/author/B07J1X2B48
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6815763.Victoria_Weisfeld
Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/She-Knew-Much-Victoria-Weisfeld/dp/B0G56LHLLS/
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GIVEAWAY
Victoria Weisfeld will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.
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