Jo Piazza Does Her Best Writing At 35,000 Feet

The author of The Sicilian Inheritance writes from trains, planes, and (years ago) nightclub bathrooms. Jo Piazza’s mystery/thriller, The Sicilian Inheritance, was inspired by her great-great-grandmother’… Bustle Book Club Jo Piazza has written 12 books, and she’s not afraid to play favorites. “I’ve been hustling for this one more than I have for anything else,” says the author, podcaster, and journalist about her new novel, The Sicilian Inheritance . “This is, I think, the best thing I’ve done, but also it’s so intensely personal because it’s based on my family’s story.” A twisty, multigenerational mystery, the book follows Sara Marsala, who heads to Sicily following the collapse of her marriage and her business. Her great-aunt Rosie has recently passed away, leaving Sara a plane ticket to the island and the deed to a plot of land. The catch: to find out what really happened to Sara’s great-grandmother, Serafina, who Rosie believed was murdered. Toggling between the past and present-day, the reader meets the independent, headstrong Serafina, who makes waves by refusing to settle for a traditional life, and sees parallels to the ways women have been held back both a century ago and today. The book is inspired by Piazza’s great-great grandmother, Lorenza Marsala, who was also murdered in Sicily. In addition to the novel, Piazza recently launched a companion podcast , which she describes as “ White Lotus meets Only Murders in the Building ,” that attempts to solve Lorenza’s murder. It’s a quest that took the author back to Sicily, digging through archives, talking to locals, and combing through court records. Jo Piazza went to Sicily to research her great-great-grandmother’s murder that inspired her new novel, The Sicilian Inheritance .Courtesy Jo Piazza “We found some crazy bombshells going through the records of the town,” she says. “About her murder and who she was murdered with, which is something we did not know.” The recent fixation on the “mob wife” aesthetic could not have been more perfectly timed to The Sicilian Inheritance . “There is really something to big Sicilian energy,” says Piazza, who’s based in Philadelphia and […]

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