Philly author's book was inspired by the unsolved murder of an ancestor in Italy

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Philly author's book was inspired by the unsolved murder of an ancestor in Italy

'The Sicilian Inheritance,' the new book by Philly author Jo Piazza, tells the story of a woman accused of witchcraft in early 1900s Sicily and a relative piecing together her death. The book was inspired by the unsolved murder of her great-great grandmother, Lorenza Marsala, who may have been killed by the Italian Mafia.