Daughter Am I by Pat Bertram

Book Description
When twenty-five-year-old Mary Stuart learns she inherited a farm from her recently murdered grandparents – grandparents her father claimed had died before she was born – she becomes obsessed with finding out who they were and why someone wanted them dead. Along the way she accumulates a crew of feisty octogenarians – former gangsters and friends of her grandfather. She meets and falls in love with Tim Olson, whose grandfather shared a deadly secret with her great-grandfather. Now Mary and Tim need to stay one step ahead of the killer who is desperate to dig up that secret.

My thoughts
In "Daughter Am I" by Pat Bertram, Mary finds out she had grandparents after she inherits their farm when they are murdered. Annoyed with her father for keeping her grandparents a secret, she goes out on a journey to learn about them and try to find out why there were killed. Along for the journey, are a group of feisty seniors (all of whom knew her grandparents) she picks along the way. And they have story to tell – about prohibition, the Mafia and life in Chicago and on the lam. This is a road trip to story about murder, mystery, friendship and bonding.