Justin Cascio

Family is at the heart of the Mafia. Justin Cascio uses genealogy to find new perspectives on the criminal organization's history, methods, and personnel. His first book, IN OUR BLOOD: THE MAFIA FAMILIES OF CORLEONE, is the culmination of years of research into the Mafia and mafiosi of his own family's ancestral hometown in Sicily. His second book, PASQUALINA: THE BOOTLEG QUEEN OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, is the true history of the Mafia gangs of western Massachusetts during Prohibition, and the woman who ruled over them.