Danielle Trussoni, author of The Ancestor and creator of Crypto-Z
This episode we’re talking with Danielle Trussoni, the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of the Angelology series whose new book The Ancestor (reviewed Tuesday at the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/books/review/the-ancestor-danielle-trussoni.html), which called it "as creepy as you might expect from an author who also writes the Book Review’s horror column.") is a gothic thriller about a New York woman who receives a letter that informs her she has inherited a title and a castle in Italy. But for a book that starts out following what seems to be a gothic thriller of the old school, it winds up going places that twist and subvert the genre. One spoiler that the publisher is comfortable giving away is that the lead-inherits-a-castle story moves gradually, terrifyingly into a Michael Crichton-like scientific deep dive into crypto-zoology, the study of unknown creatures.